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Please visit the Blog Index page to search nearly 400 articles in different topical categories. Lately, my writing focus has been in the Reflections category, but the most popular articles are from the End of Life and Biblical Faith categories. 12 of those are highlighted below:
• Helping Others Make Sense of Traumatic Events (March 23, 2025) There are eight Bible passages/verses that I keep close by when I’m called to visit a hospital patient or a hospice patient or someone trying to make sense of a tragic or traumatic event…
• Making Peace at End-of-Life (June 28, 2024) Few of us have actually set out to live our lives as pirates, obsessively searching for rum and treasure while giving no regard for contributing to society or being a morally centered citizen. Some have…
• Appointed Time to Die? (January 8, 2024) Most of us have heard it said, “When it’s your turn to go, it’s your turn to go” or “When your number comes up, there’s nothing you can do about it” or “We all have an appointed time to go.” I think there is a lot of…
• Antichrist, Covenant, and Daniel 9:27 (October 30, 2023) In a previous post titled “Why Seven Year Tribulation?” I addressed the 70 week prophecy of Daniel 9 and why it doesn’t apply to a supposed seven year tribulation period. I even included…
• Common Ground in Pre-Trib vs Post-Trib (October 26, 2023) This article is not about arguing my position or trying to disprove your position. It’s about the often overlooked common ground between the pre-trib and post-trib positions of the return…
• Why Do Bad Things Happen? (September 28, 2023) When a loved one lays unconscious and dependent on a machine to breathe or a simple drive to the grocery store is interrupted by a drunk driver or a physician informs you that the pain you thought…
• Hope Beyond Their Death (August 19, 2023) The immediate shock and despair of a loved one’s passing can leave us feeling hopeless about the future. No matter how much we may think we are prepared, death is devastating. It is the perfect earthly…
• CPR, DNR, and Letting Go (August 17, 2023) It is a very emotionally difficult position to be in when a physician asks the family if they want them to do all they can to keep your loved one alive or if you want them to pass away naturally. That conversation…
• When Your World Shatters (July 21, 2023) As a chaplain at a trauma hospital just miles from the beaches of the upper Gulf Coast, I frequently deal with patients and families who have had diving accidents. In my experience, diving accidents best sum…
• When Someone is Dying (June 16, 2023) There are signs of dying when a loved-one is struggling with a terminal disease or for whatever reason is at the end of their life. People don’t die in real life as they do in the movies. Hollywood often portray…
• Objectives & Strategies for Grieving (May 13, 2023) In the process of grieving, there is no time frame assigned or one-size fits all approach to assure a healthy grieving process. There are elements to healthy grieving that one can be intentionally…
• Revelation 13:11 and The United States of America? (January 7, 2021) I realize that many Bible prophecy teachers are quick to say that the United States of America isn’t in Revelation. Many of these preachers pinpoint other countries in prophecy…
