lesson from the Vikings

The Vikings were fierce pirates and warriors who terrorized Europe from the late 700’s to about A.D. 1100. Brutal and fearsome they looted and burned parts of England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, and Spain. Other Europeans were so frightened of the Vikings that a special prayer for protection was offered in the churches: “God, deliver us from the fury of the Northmen.”

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Both Real and There

Like a persistent, resounding bell, "belief in God's proximity" and the importance of realizing it tones on inside of me as I read the scriptures from the Bible studies I have been involved in this month.

I John 1 is a key~ from the evidentiary opening of the first chapter to the close of it, with John's plea for truthful living, the Life, the light vs. darkness and the necessity of confession~ all point to the reality of an ever Present Christ.

That He is real in the chapel is not so much the challenge that He is just as much in the car. Or the kitchen. Or the computer desk.

Where does God's presence feel "real" to you? Where is the place where you are distracted away from him?