by David Howell | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
I attend a large affluent church in an affluent or rich neighborhood. Most all of the people who are members drive nice cars, have nice jobs or own their own businesses. The real givers in that group support a very hefty budget and continuing building program. There...
by David Howell | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog
For twenty eight years I was a full blown practicing alcoholic and drug addict. I sobered up in Alcoholics Anonymous and through myself into that program as well. That is sort of the way it is with us all or nothing types. We liked to go all in all of our endeavors;...
by David Howell | Sep 17, 2017 | Blog
Recently, I spoke to a family member who had served some time in state jail here in Texas. Mostly, a state jail is a prison for drug violators and combines a sort of behavior based rehabilitation program with jail time. It is called a treatment program, but is more...
by David Howell | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
My affliction is alcoholism. You might call it addiction or disease or any number of labels that are thrown around today, but essentially it has been my symptom of my personal hole in the soul. Those of us with a hole in the soul might manifest in alcoholism, binge...
by David Howell | Sep 6, 2017 | Blog
We continue to force feed to non-believers terms like “the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ”, propitiation, “atonement for our sins”, “redemption”, “salvation”, ”blood of the lamb” and all the other terms we as Christians toss around in hymns and conversation as...
by David Howell | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
There are approximately 2,100,000 inmates incarcerated in the United States at any given time. Ninety-three percent are men and seven percent are women. I mentioned permanent to identify those who have generally one or more years of sentencing for their infractions....
