by 61stcoc | Mar Thu, 2019 | Author, Christian 2 Christian
“I love nothing more than writing about the work of the Holy Spirit in the eternal struggle. So this piece from three years ago, reworked, seemed most appropriate for today. The proverbial “they” often say even a monkey learns from his or her mistakes. And despite...
by 61stcoc | Feb Mon, 2019 | Christian 2 Christian, Ozzie Roberts
Throughout my life, medical doctors have been among the people who have most endeared themselves to me. I’m certain that the ways in which they would apply their hands and minds to healing some of my many wounds has a lot to do with all of that. Often, I’d be in pain,...
by 61stcoc | Dec Sun, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian, Ozzie Roberts
I’ve heard this story before. It goes much like this: A worldly reader, up on Bible verses, goes into a popular neighborhood bar and lays down a tidy sum on a bet that Delilah didn’t cut off Samson’s hair. A throng of other patrons, all even vaguely familiar with the...
by 61stcoc | Dec Thu, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian, Ozzie Roberts
December 16, 2018 Be like Jesus. That is the greatest charge for us Christians. But it is so much easier to say than to carry out. For one, among a litany of requirements, to be even someone like Jesus, it takes owning great faith. For another, it takes being a great...
by 61stcoc | Dec Thu, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian, Ozzie Roberts
December 9, 2018 We’re in Matthew 14, specifically verses 30 and 31: The wind is whipping up harder and harder. The water in the Sea of Galilee is raging and billowing. A boat carrying twelve men tosses about on the waves, clearly out of human control. Fear is in the...
by 61stcoc | Dec Thu, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian
December 2, 2018 Across the bay on the island of St. John in the Virgin Islands, they still tell stories about my grandfather, Henry Roberts. The one that I’ve heard the most – at least from my father – goes this way: Ol’ Henry was walking alone on a road to town one...
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