Recently my Japanese friend, a missionary in Japan, asked for prayer about her troubled feeling aroused by the movie, Silence, shot in Taiwan by Hollywood director, Martin Scorsese. According to Time Magazine, “Silence is a somber epic about Jesuit priests struggling to keep their faith in violently anti-Christian 17th century Japan”. ...

I wake up far to soon from my sleeping. And now the darkness begins. It came hiding all of my sin Now I’m just waiting for the Sun. I try to breathe before rays are shared by the morning Sun. I’m quite undone as my confessions come in the night. ...

As  we enter  a new era of leadership in America we are also seeing a time of racial, moral, and religious prejudice. Racial tension is running high. Morality has become based upon personal choice rather than absolute truth. Religious persuasions have too often succumbed to political correctness. A new word ...