The main character of Empty Reflection is a young man who has a lot of charisma and seems to have a lot of influence on people. He has a near “rock-star” personality when it comes to influencing people - especially voters - but people really don’t know him. In reality, he doesn’t even know himself.
Self-identity [...]
I preached this morning on Moses, with the opening point being “Passion Without Knowledge”. Moses saw a problem - ‘his’ people being persecuted, and even beaten - so he took matters into his own hands and killed the Egyptian who was beating the Hebrew slave. Not only did that result in him having to flee [...]
I had a very unusual experience this past week. I was asked to become guardian of an elderly man in our church - a man who has no relatives and no one else who could make medical decisions for him, and a man who was not able to make such decisions, or any decisions, for [...]
One of the main characters of the book “Empty Reflection” has an ongoing battle withing himself (that usually spills onto others) - mainly because he has a struggle with his identity. He knows, or perceives, that there is something unique or different about him, but he doesn’t know what that is. His doubts lead to [...]
This story is about a young man who seemed to have what it takes to be “successful” - but the problem is that what he has is mostly surface. There simply is no depth of character.
In my days as an assistant baseball coach, my ‘boss’ - head coach Al Worthington - often referred to the [...]