Today is my birthday, and I am going to repost a story from five years ago (with updates, of course). I was born on June 17, Father’s Day. I am not going to talk about Fathers; I am going to talk about my journey and why I do what I do. To do this, I am using one of the songs from the Hamilton Musical, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story. The song starts like this: “Let me tell you what I wished I’d known when I was young and dreamed of glory. You have no control over Read More
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History Has Its Eyes on You and So Does God.
History is about what happens in the NOW which later becomes the past. There is a song in the Hamilton Musical which really sums up history. It’s called History Has Its Eyes On You. Even when we think the things which we do each day are not important, history is watching and recording. The words we speak are often recorded and repeated throughout history, so be careful what you say. Our actions can cause others to be blessed or cursed, so watch what you do. Yes, history definitely has its eyes on you, but so does our loving God. I was reminded of this today in church Read More
Your Past: It’s Under the Blood
Your past is exactly that, your past. As we say in Pentecostal circles, “It’s Under the Blood”. There are times when we think about our past and we wish we could erase some of the bad and add some good things. There are times when we want to hide who we were and pretend that we were born as someone else. When the enemy approaches you with tales from your past (even if it was just 5 minutes ago), you can say to him, I don’t know what you are talking about. Tell him, it’s under the blood. It’s not what Read More
Rewriting History: God Rewrites Your Story
Rewriting history seems to be a very prominent activity around the world at the moment. Presidential candidates are attempting to rewrite their own histories. Recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), voted 24 to 6, to rewrite Jewish and Christian history by stating the Temple Mount and the Western Wall have no ties to Jewish history and from this point on these two sites will be referred to by their Arabic names rather than their Hebrew names. The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif to Muslims. Israels’s Education Minister declared, “Yesterday’s decision Read More
