Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 06, 2019 • 28 Comments
I was born at the end of the Second World War. When I was a child, the cold war was hot! I don’t think anyone younger than retirement age can comprehend what it was like to be an American child in the early fifties. We expected to be bombed at any moment, to the point... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 29, 2019 • 30 Comments
The Gospel teachings of Jesus include the most radical directives ever given. His ideas seem so revolutionary to most of us that, as the lay theologian G.K. Chesterton so memorably said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting—it has been found difficult and left untried.” The teachings of Jesus are divine commands,... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 25, 2019 • 42 Comments
There are more than forty thousand versions of Christianity worldwide. Many are the size of a single building, but a few are gigantic: the Catholic Church has 1.2 billion members, and the United Methodist Church alone has more than twelve million members worldwide. Most of the differences among denominations are minor, but they are enough... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 20, 2019 • 23 Comments
We know for certain now that Jesus is real! He came from the highest aspect of the Godhead, and He entered a body two millennia ago with a set of goals that included teaching us how to lift ourselves spiritually so together we can transform the world. All the forty thousand religious variants that profess... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 13, 2019 • 20 Comments
The most amazing discovery of my life is the fact that Jesus is a genuine Being Who came to us as God on earth. Having faith without evidence to back it up is useless! Who cares what you or I might believe? But we can prove now based on the testimony of people that we... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 06, 2019 • 35 Comments
It is so hard to convey to you what living in the kingdom of God on earth will be like that we have spent a few preparatory months in sharing background information. There has been so much that you needed to know in order for what we say here to make sense that if you... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 30, 2019 • 21 Comments
All the stresses and angers that now separate people, best exemplified in our rage-filled politics but extending into every cranny of our lives, are signs of human history gone dangerously wrong. It is hard for people whose lifespan on earth will extend for only eight or nine decades, and people who furthermore believe that modernity... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 23, 2019 • 20 Comments
Amazingly, this is the first decade in all of human history when we know for certain why the universe exists and why you and I are in these bodies. No mogul or king, no prophet through even the end of the twentieth century could have known what you and I know now. Had some of... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 09, 2019 • 17 Comments
Scientists never make anything like the public fuss that they ought to be making about the fact that they cannot understand time at all. Apparently there is no scientific reason why time should run in one direction, why it should be constant and measurable, or even why it should exist; so pretty much the best... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 02, 2019 • 27 Comments
The kingdom of God was the Lord’s obsession. He uses the term more than fifty times through all four Gospels, and He refers to “the kingdom of heaven” almost thirty times in the Gospel of Matthew. Since the terms seem to mean the same thing to Jesus, this is likely another translation glitch so to... Read More
