(ThyBlackMan.com) Excited anticipation is what a young child feels like on Christmas Eve. Getting so excited about opening Christmas presents that you couldn’t go to sleep that night. Anticipated excitement at being surprised as to what you would open the next morning. There was no doubt that good things would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My mother used to have a phrase when she was alive. Usually referring to me and my attitude when I thought I had done something particularly noteworthy. She used it when describing somebody who started acting like they were better than someone else or, basically felt their No. 2 didn’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When we turn on the news it seems to be overrun with bad news. There seems to be death, war, famine, and disease at every turn. Very rarely do we get to see good news that’s abundant and reminds us that life is good. If one believes in God, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Psalm 8:3-5 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 5 You have made them a little lower ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of you may have seen the childhood film Pinocchio which had a little wooden boy listening to a “conscience” depicted as a little bug named Jiminy Cricket. This cricket was to lead Pinocchio in the right ways so that he would not get into trouble. Of course, Pinocchio ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bless you O Lord for your mercy endures forever. Your grace is sufficient for me. I need you every day all day. Anytime that I don’t think I do please forgive my foolish selfish sinful attitude. I too often allow the worldly influences to command my attention. That distraction ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most people know what a runaway train is a train that has no physical way of stopping or slowing down. Typically only stopping as a result of derailment, crashing into a barrier or running out of tracks. Our world resembles a runaway train as it races down the tracks ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It hit me very hard. I was filled with an abundance of emotions. The like of which I have never known. I was mad, upset, disappointed, confused, outraged, dumbfounded, amazed, astonished, depressed, fearful and bewildered. How could this have happened? It shook me so much that a feeling of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is how most of us live, in and with our routines. So much so that at times if something interrupts them or one is taken away our world seems to crash. Case in point I have to have my cup of coffee in the morning. If not then ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) All sides on this issue are not telling the whole truth, largely because all sides refused to accept the truth and their role in the conflict. Largely because they are sticking to their spiritual, cultural and historic beliefs. So I am going to give you an unbiased, objective assessment ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Meanwhile, when Esau, the older twin brother of Jacob, was 40 years old, he married two Canaanite women, which was an act of defiance. Isaac was going to give his bloodline blessing to Esau, his favorite son, when the brothers were 70 years old, in 2088. But Jacob, Rebekah’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is it really possible to put your life in the hands of the Lord? To some modest extent I have experienced the effect of trying to do just that. I can’t say how successful I’ve been but, I ask the question of you because I feel obligated to share ...