God hates rituals of worship where we gather with others and sing songs with great feeling, while in

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice. Psalm 96:11-12 It has been hot - very hot. Anyone who has started receiving their electric bill for the last month is cringing on how they are going to pay for it. And this month has had higher temperatures than last month. May the Lord help us all figure out how to pay these! But Go

And when he came to himself, he said… “I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee…” Luke 15:17a-18 The story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) is the story of a young Jewish boy who decided the life planned for him and the rules he must live by are all too confining and dull. He goes to a far country, gets in with the wrong crowd, suffers financial reverses, and winds up in a pigpen. For him, as for so ma