Welcome to The Fatherland

I wanted to direct your attention to The Living Loved Life portion of The Fatherland website. It is a podcast idea to train ourselves to notice that The Holy Spirit has been speaking to us all this time and we…

I think creativity comes from The Holy Spirit.  As I look back on all the things I've written, the acts of love I've done, and certainly the following of Jesus to The Father, I've concluded that none of it's really…

This morning I felt again this kind of "pressure" in my upper body/chest/abdomen/gut/heart whatever that I have associated for years with the internal pressure of the Holy Spirit prompting me in my life.  Today, I was feeling it even more…

Bill, a high school teacher turned self-made millionaire, discovered at age 35, that if he purchased a used, reliable car instead of new (forgoing the car payment, the higher insurance for it being a newer car, the maintenance if it's…

I have been “Love Waiting” since 1987.  In eighth grade, I attended my parochial school Bible study class entitled, Love Waiting.  It was a contemporary plea for abstinence to a new generation.  (To be honest, I was more interested in…

We understand there are physical rules that govern life on earth.  Gravity, motion, force, etc.  And everything that exists here or has ever existed on this earth has been, at one point, created.  There is nothing here, that just "is."…

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…

A mark of the Christian - the Christ-follower, the Christ-way - is whether they can forgive and reinstate. (That is what Jesus saw his father doing in him.)  I have rarely met someone who forgives (let alone reinstates people).  (Except…

Jason Gray said it was a pleasure to work under the authority of his son on The Kipper Gray Sessions.  I want him to talk more about this because THIS IS KEY to understanding how to enjoy our relationship…

I think men (and women) too often hide behind the excuse of stereotype... I find it hard to believe that men are THAT insensitive or THAT thoughtless or THAT emotionless... I think it's an excuse to not have to try…

Jesus does all the work to make us into disciples... 
And, as we are being MADE into disciples we make other disciples... 
And, as we make other disciples, we continue to be MADE by Jesus. 
It's a life-long... way of…

This is why God just loves us into relationship with him - why He just loves us into real truth... If he were to do anything else, he would be accused of trying to gaslight us all into loving him…