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(right click on the link in the above pic and open another window to play music while reading lyrics. There is one more verse in the lyrics than in the music.) Keep Running With Me (sing to the tune of the Theme from “Chariots of Fire”) By Charles F. Tekula, Jr. One Day One Day […]
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Much of the preaching you hear in Christian circles focuses on sin — what it is and what one must do in order to obtain forgiveness and redemption. But the Christian authority is Jesus of Nazareth Himself, and any “authority” with which these preachers speak has to come from Him. He once walked the earth […]
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I can’t do Godless mornings anymore. I know because I tried. I found myself at 53 years old, sweeping the cobwebs out of my head and wondering where I stood with God. For a moment I was reliving a Godless morning in Levittown, a kid who knew no God surrounded by families who centered their […]
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Jesus described the Kingdom of God as a little leaven, or yeast, that a woman “hid” in a lump of dough, leavening the whole loaf. Conventional Christian wisdom has it that this all important “leaven” is the Word of God which Jesus spoke into the world. But there are problems with this explanation of the […]
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So much is made of Copernicus and Galileo wresting science away from religious authorities who had declared it a heresy to claim that the earth was not the center of the universe. Using the telescope he invented and his and his predecessor’s mathematical calculations, Galileo was able to show that the earth was just one […]
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Below is a page scanned from my book which was published in 2002. However, the original manuscript was copyrighted in 1999, over two years before the World Trade Center disaster. A copy of it, including this text, has been on file in the Library of Congress since then. See also A Sign in the Heavens […]
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I’ve had several similar dreams that actually came to pass specifically as dreamed – but most were more symbolic and none came true so soon after the dream. Perhaps the most memorable was the one that set me on a course to becoming a practicing Catholic adult after a stoically faithful-to-my-parents atheistic childhood and adolescence. […]
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The dream was this – I was in a classroom taking a test (a recurring dream scenario for me of late), and there was a noise outside. I went to the door and looked to the right up the highway; there was a towering dark cloud, like a tornado, only emanating from its sides, like […]
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On his biographical DVD, THE HERO’S JOURNEY, Joseph Campbell, the late professor of comparative religions and author of many books on cultural mythology, recounted an incident on a radio talk show that led him to a personal epiphany on the subject of belief in God. After arguing with the host on the air about the […]
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To read excerpts from my books, click on the cover.
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