This comes from a rather simple story. The story may not jump out at you as being of great import or particularly significant but there are several critical points in…

Heartfelt Religion

October 14, 2012
What does it mean to have a hearfelt faith and religion? Is it emotional zeal, the Holy Spirit taking over my heart and helping with decisions, honesty and sincerity (regardless…

Making Decisions

October 7, 2012
He asks the question: "Why do such informed people make such poorly formed decisions?" Knowing the right thing to do isn't always correlated with actually doing the right thing. Why…

Family

September 16, 2012
Joel uses a rather unique startegy, the meanings of names of the various members of his family, to talk about our spiritual family; those of us meeting together today.