A new App called Confession is available for the iPhone and iPad. With it, a Roman Catholic can confess their sins remotely, without visiting a confessional or a priest. A Roman Catholic bishop has approved its use. The App allows them to type their sins into a confessional box and receive instructions…

My conscience is clean....on this issue. Taxpayers who think they've cheated the US government have a place they can send their money anonymously. It's known as "The Conscience Fund" and the government uses it for miscellaneous expenses. Well I called bull on this story. No way! The government takes…

His Hands Are Re-Forming The Potter’s skillful hands re-form as well as form us. Remember the potter from Jeremiah 18. When he saw that the vessel seemed marred, he squeezed the clay into a new lump and started to re-form it. Sometimes we think we’re unusable and even unredeemable. We’ve done something…

Don’t live your life full of regret. Often we think the past is painted by regret, the present is haunted by regret, and the future is limited by regret. Even people we would never suspect, find their life overshadowed by regret. At 93 years old, Betty White has worked alongside comedic stars like Mary…

man pardoned by then-Gov. Edwin Edwards after serving six years of a life sentence for his role in the 1973 killing of a Baton Rouge drugstore owner said Thursday he will appeal a state judge’s refusal to erase the murder conviction from his record. Forest Hammond said he first will file a motion asking…

We never find Adam afraid of God or of any manifestation of Deity while he was in Paradise an obedient creature. But no sooner had he touched the fatal fruit than he found that he was naked, and hid himself. When he heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, Adam was…

REGRET In his book, Go the Distance, Ed Rowell says, "There are two types of pain in life - the pain of self-discipline, which is always eased by accomplishment, and the pain of regret, which aches within us until we die." —Go the Distance, p 74 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson For more information on Go…

At the ripe old age of 89, a year before English politician Sir Leonard Woolf died, he said, “The world today and the history of the human ant hill would be exactly the same if I had played ping pong instead of sitting on committees, writing books, and producing memoranda. I have therefore to make this…

Think what an injury and injustice would be inflicted upon all the honest men in London if the thieves were never punished for their roguery. It would be making the innocent suffer if you allowed the guilty to escape. God, therefore, not out of arbitrary choice, but from necessity of rightness, must…

A Canadian family woke up to find a bag containing a digital camera, an X-box, along with a note, and $50 cash on their porch. The items had been stolen from them the previous day while the family was out walking their dog. The note was from the thief apologizing and seeking the family’s forgiveness.…

Once King Frederick the Great was visiting the jails of Potsdam and speaking to the inmates. Surprisingly, every single one of the inmates expressed to the King that they were totally innocent of the charges against them. Near the end of the King's visit, one of the inmates shared with him, “My King,…

That was the case with Sarah. You see, Sarah was rich – very, very rich. Not only was her income a thousand dollars a day, but she had inherited twenty million. That's not bad?especially in the late 1800s. By today's standards, she could have been a billionaire. She was well known in high society. Just…

(Communion Meditation) Robert F. Hull Jr. Mark 14:35-36; Mark 14:50; In a powerful sermon, Fred Craddock points out that only the reader of Mark’s Gospel really sees Jesus in Gethsemane lying prostrate on the ground and hears him praying for the hour to pass from him (Mark 14:35, 36). Peter, James, and…

BETRAYAL What is the most famous kiss of all times? Maybe it is the picture of Edith Shain kissing a sailor on VJ day at the end of WWII. “The picture," Edith says, "it says so many things — hope, love, peace and tomorrow. The end of the war was a wonderful experience, and that photo represents all those…

Guilt is very suspicious. When you have done wrong to a man, you cannot believe him. Nothing renders you so full of doubt toward another as your own consciousness of having acted unjustly toward him. Now, when a sense of guilt comes over the soul, nature begins to say, “Can the Lord be a sin-pardoning…

BLAMEGUILTRESPONSIBILITY What does a bagel, or even broken teeth, for that matter, have to do with losing the care, comfort, consortium and society of a spouse? Frankly, I don’t have a clue, but John and Cecelia O'Hare filed suit against a McDonald’s restaurant claiming that a bagel broke John’s teeth…

U.S. Olympic doctor Larry Nassar has been accused and found guilty of molesting hundreds of underage girls as both the Olympic Gymnastics doctor and a doctor and professor at Michigan State University. The first girl to allege publicly that Nassar was a child molester was Rachael Denhollander. She was…

In 1998 Margot Riphagen hosted a party at her parents’ home in Portland, OR. After the party four rings were discovered missing. They included her mother’s wedding ring and her grandparents’ wedding bands. Fifteen years later the rings showed up in the mail along with an anonymous apology from the contrite…

And being aware of who you are precedes being who you are. On the other hand, being unaware or at least not appreciating fully who you are can really lead you into trouble. Clayton Longtree was a guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. It was a position of trust and honor, but it was dull and exhausting.…

New York City has begun an ad campaign to discourage teen pregnancy. The ad pictures a tear-stained young child who declares to an unseen mom, “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen.” “The ad is trying to shame teens into responsible sexual behavior” condemned Planned…

Joe Scheidler, the founder of the Pro-Life Action League, said, “Truth is truth and it always will be true. Life begins at the moment of fertilization. That’s biologically sound. Whether you believe that or not depends a lot on your own wishes. The mind is not happy with a lie. Ninety-some percent of…

Ten years have passed since NFL-player-turned Army-corporal; Pat Tillman was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan. One of the three Army Rangers who opened fire that day says he cannot get away from the fact that Tillman’s death might be his fault. In a television interview Stephen Elliott…

New evidence is sometimes brought into court that completely changes the aspect of the case. If you have been on a jury, you would not like to tell your fellow jurors how many times you have changed your mind while you have heard the evidence. If you have listened attentively, I expect you have had half…

A Portland area man feels very fortunate because he got his stolen bicycle back after only a few hours. Paul Gilmour said his bike was taken and the thief brought it back, along with an apology and some money to pay for the lock he broke. Gilmour said in the letter, the man admitted to taking the bike,…