INHERITANCE

UPLIFTING I was blessed to get help from my Father, and to have skills that let me win three patents for new aircraft designs.  I had funds to get started and time to find markets.  Six years later I am again looking at poverty in spite of many hours of hard work.  Sure, Social Security

RAGS TO RICHES

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD As a Christian most of my beliefs point me towards conservative values.  When I was deprived of work and lost unemployment benefits I might have faced real poverty.  Was I “lazy” because I needed help?  I was able to move to Arizona and live with my father.  Walking

GOING DOWN…

MAN OF MEANS BY NO MEANS After 30 years of mechanical design work I was told that I was “unemployable”.  Since I had a few weeks out of work I supposedly had forgotten all I learned in those years.  This is just a ploy to say that I was too old because I still use

RUST IN PEACE

COLD SILENCE The reality of giving your life to Jesus as a repentant soul may look cold and harsh.  But God teaches us to walk by faith and not by sight.  What the world and Hollywood like to suggest as a heaven for sinners is not real.  But God has offered the reality of eternal

REALITIES

NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED; A SMILING WELCOME TO HELL. At the end of the Movie Titanic, we see all those smiling faces Waiting for Rose in the  depths of Davey Jone’s Locker.  There is Jack on the stair, but who are these other smiling people?  These are the souls that did not rise when the

FOLLOWING FOLLY

ROSE COLORED GLASSES Solomon gave us Proverbs so we could chose the wisdom of God over that of the world.  Our last studies compared the wisdom of God to the wisdom of the world of the Titanic and that of our modern world.  Our modern movie view of the Titanic reveals how new age views

SINKING SENSATION

HOPE DEFERRED The industrial revolution introduced the ability to produce huge factories and machines.  the Titanic was the largest moving machine of its day.  This was the unsinkable masterpiece of the modern age.  The designer himself was on board and science seems to have mastered the oceans.  Today a great nation anchors the economies of

COMMAND DECISIONS

CHARTING A COURSE Leaders make choices that affect the course of the people who enable their plans.  The Captain of the Titanic wears the honors of the ship line that reflect his years of good service.  His choice to set speed records in dangerous waters may have been from pride or glory seeking.  But the