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How long’s it been now? Since there’s been a good one … a really good one? Not some ‘governor lying that he’ was lost on the Appalachian Trail but was really on a love rendezvous in Argentina’ type ruse. (Despite the South American connection, the story is far too local.) Certainly, not one of those tepid Medicare payment scams. Instead, I’m talking about shenanigans of...

I guess enough years have passed for me to "fess up". This confession spans decades, probably from when I was old enough to walk, although I certainly don't remember that inaugural event. For in spite of feeling I led a fairly good life, I have to admit that along the way - I made mistakes. Whether as a toddler, as a child in grade school, as a teenager or an adult, I did things I knowingly...

Judeo-Christian Quantum-Healing is based on that there is one God and that there is one absolute truth. This means that when God created out of nothing the universe. It was perfect . We do not know when Satan's minions rebelled against God, nor do we know that timeframe innervation to Adams sin. The Bible teaches us that Adam's sin was more profound then Lucifer's in retrospect. We know then that...

One of my guilty pleasures –as it turns out, I have a few of them-- is pickles. Under the cover of darkness, when no one is looking (guilty pleasures are best carried out clandestinely), and armed only with a cocktail fork stolen from my best friend, Booger Wadsworth’s last birthday bash, I do a shifty-eyed slink into the kitchen. No plate, no napkin. Just me … the fork … and a jar of...

The Yoke's On You: Slavery to Sin or Freedom in Christ By Aaron Welch, LMHC, NCCGod has really been speaking to me lately. Yes, really. Amazing as it sounds for a man who has been a Christian for 31 years, I am just now learning that God still speaks to us, if we will only listen. For years, I don’t think I fully believed this…..that we could really hear the Lord’s voice. I just thought...

I must confess that the closer I get in my relationship to the Lord, the further I feel from the organized church. (Gasp!) Okay.....so I’m hoping that got your attention. Despite my attempt at overstated hyperbole, the statement above is, essentially, true. I don’t like that it’s true. I am resistant to the message that it gives me. I am not relishing the idea of...

“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgression, wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.” Psalm 51:1-2 This is the start of one of my favorite Psalms. King David was confronted by the prophet Nathan after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba. Nathan was like an accountability partner or recovery coach...