Hugh's Blog

We all have people in our lives that we don't care for. We tolerate them when we have to and then move on and tell ourselves what good christians we are for being pleasant to them.But being pleasant is not what God commands of us. God commands us to love each other. The last time you spoke with s...

Only the good die young. Besides for it being a Billy Joel song I have heard that phrase many times and I am starting to wonder. There is a young women with three children from our church who has been battling cancer for a long time. She is the sweetest most giving loving person you will ever mee...

 I have been involved in more than my fair share of debate on Active Rain. Not all of it pleasant. I am sure sometimes many of us just want to get under one anothers skin.But one thing I have learned is that my favorite people to debate with are the ones whom I respect. People who truly believe t...

II CORINTHIANS I 3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies and God of all comfort. 4: Who comforts us in all our tribulation,that we may be able to comforet those  who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5:For a...

First off I would like to be clear, I have never met Nick. We talk on the phone quite often and are in AR contact almost daily but I have never met him in person. As far as worldly things go i don't think we have a great deal in common, but our spiritual bond is amazing. I,m not even sure why I a...

2TIMOTHY 1:7 For god has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love an of a sound mind.  How many more scriptures can you think of where we are told not to fear or that we have nothing to be afraid of. Fear is a foolish emotion which does nothing to advance Gods kingdom. Tell me your...

 You may notice that my signature usually contains a statement about giving God the glory in all we do. All to often I think, we like to take credit for the things which God does through us.We foget the attitude of humility which Jesus taught us. Even when someone is complimenting some good work ...

 So Revrend Jessie Jackson thinks that Obama talks down to Black people. Well Join the club, we already know he talks down to white people. He all but conceded the Hispanic vote to Senator Clinton in the primaries.He doesn't think much of gun owners or Bible readers.He doesn't care whether or not...

We talk about personal witnessing. We talk about shining Gods light to those around us. We talk about living life in a way that people will notice something different about us. I have written about my refusal to be a stealth Christian. Well lately I have had a couple of opportunities to do someth...

 Just recently I was feeling a little flat in my walk. Since the start of the new job I have had very little time for the either the Gideon ministry and can no longer attend one of my prayer meetings. I was praying for something to get the blood flowing again. Well the Lord has answered know I ne...