A Walk With Him

How Many Gospels Are There? There has been a lot said about salvation over the last two thousand years.  People of different countries, different people groups, ethnicities, theologies, and philosophies all seem to have come up with their own ideas about salvation.  We, as humans, have probably thought of just about every way imaginable to make it from this life securely into the next.  We have conjured so many varied ways to cross over to the next world that we are now bringing back to life ancient eastern religions and mixing in a few thoughts of our own time just to make them more palatable and more fun.   Many people don’t seem to think salvation is even necessary.  They are happy to just run along skipping and jumping their way through life believing that every man’s good is his own creation.  And what about when their time on earth is finished, well, it is incomprehensible to them that they will do anything but decom...

Stepping Back Not long ago, my wife and I sold a house we had lived in for nearly two decades.  The house was built in the late 1800s and so, there were always things to do and spend our time and money on.  During the time we lived there we did things like fix windows and doors, rewire the biggest portion of the house, replace old or inadequate plumbing and so on.   One summer I decided it was time to repair the weather-beaten and rotten tongue and groove flooring on the front porch.  I soon found that the old axiom that said, “On old houses, you can’t fix just one thing”, was absolutely true.  I ripped the decking off the porch and, as expected, found a lot of rotten wood in the porch frame that I replaced as I went along. At last I was nearly finished with the repair of the frame and was looking forward to installing the new flooring.  I finally decided what I needed to do to repair the porch frame that joined the frame of the hou...