Phat on Fruit is an expression I interpret as feeding richly on the infallible Word of God known as the Holy Bible. (See Isaiah 55:2) Feeding is a metaphor for not only reading it but internalizing and meditating on His word which is alive and able to transform us into disciples, warriors and rulers of the Kingdom to come.
My Nana was the first to ask if we had the Christmas spirit. Other people would ask if we had “caught” the Christmas spirit. Later, I realized that most people misspoke about what they imagined the Christmas spirit to be. People tended to speak of the joy of giving and receiving, the peace of warm […]
The most amazing thing about writing this blog is how after writing things again and again. Sometimes you get breakthroughs in awesome ways. I was watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas” for the umpteenth time. I’ve watched and enjoyed it time and again, laughing at all the jokes in the same places. I always [frequently] get goosebumps […]
My wife calls me a grinch after the children’s story of the gremlin that tried to steal Christmas. I’m not against Christmas. I am against 1) the commercialization of Christmas and 2) the ongoing secular takeover of the Christmas holiday and subsequent separation of the “baby Jesus” from the beaten, scorned and betrayed Savior who […]
How amazing it is that Christ, after spending eternity with the Father took on this frail flesh and suffered the outright humiliation of being born not only with the limitation of being a human, but in the primitive ancient town of Bethlehem. It is imperative that while we celebrate His being with us, that we […]