by Larry Wilson | May 9, 2007 | Opinion
The only way that we can live a successful life is to follow the Kingdom of God that Jesus taught. We all fail to live up to these teachings, and many times we believe that we are being resourceful in doing so. Jesus says, “You cannot serve God and wealth”...
by Larry Wilson | Mar 22, 2007 | Opinion
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God,” says the beginning of Romans Chapter 13. “Therefore whoever resists authority resists...
by Larry Wilson | Feb 15, 2007 | Opinion
I have found that a funeral, the occasion on which we come to church when all other gods have failed, is a good place to speak the gospel. The god of “saving for a rainy day” is dead, because cash has failed us. Modern medicine, with specialists collecting...
by Larry Wilson | Jan 17, 2007 | Opinion
When I was a young man in the late ’60s and early ’70s, it was a time of great social upheaval with a war in Vietnam that history has determined to be a horrible blunder and a civil rights movement that would bring a more just world into being. The...
by Larry Wilson | Jan 11, 2007 | Opinion
Who is Jesus? We have a feeling that Jesus is someone we can choose to accept or choose not to accept. There is heaven or hell to pay, but little else about his life and teaching seems to have real meaning. First and foremost, Jesus is a truth-teller. In our world of...