His Ways and Our Ways
For several weeks now I have been contemplating the moment and meaning of the Mount of Transfiguration. That may seem a little strange...
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Brandon Billings
Mar 3, 20144 min read
A Christian’s Conundrum
Living in community is quite the challenge at times. I am speaking of the broader community, which I am called to influence and to serve....
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Brandon Billings
Mar 2, 20144 min read
Professions
As I mature, I have to admit that more questions than answers arise. However, that may just mean that I continue to think, rather than...
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Brandon Billings
Jan 24, 20142 min read
A Construct for Community
Reading this morning from chapters 12-13 of Exodus, my spirit seemed reawakened to the importance of community. Some four hundred years...
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Brandon Billings
Jan 14, 20144 min read
Beyond the Dream
All my life I have been guided by a sense of providence; from early on in my walk with Christ, an awareness of some unfolding dream, much...
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Brandon Billings
Aug 4, 20132 min read
I’ll be Brief but the Story, Compelling!
I am hurried this a.m., as I was told we will be attending the first service! However, my read through Matthew continues to stir my...
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Brandon Billings
Aug 3, 20133 min read
Context and Character
If Christ were God, and God is love, which is my belief, then God becoming flesh to dwell among us, must have had a reason; perhaps it...
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Brandon Billings
Aug 2, 20132 min read
Leading for the Now, Living for the Then!
This morning I read only a few words into Matthew 15 before feeling that welcomed, compelling need to write. Jesus speaks to the...
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Brandon Billings
Jul 21, 20133 min read
Role Models
“I am so deeply concerned that we should rise and shake off the grave clothes of dead denominational Christianity that lives on a dead...
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Brandon Billings
Jul 18, 20136 min read
Your Spiritual Gut
I awakened early Tuesday with the task of preparing to speak to a group of men regarding my faith and life journey. What would I say? ...
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Brandon Billings
Jun 15, 20132 min read
Politics, Poverty and Passion
This morning as I read through the Gospel of Mark, I was struck by the motivations of those described in Chapter 14. In the chapter...
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Brandon Billings
Jun 8, 20131 min read
A Wakeup Call to American Christianity
“A man was walking through the woods in springtime.1 The air was thrilling and throbbing with the passion of little hearts, with the...
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Brandon Billings
Mar 6, 20133 min read
Love without Compromise
This morning as I was “praying through” my continued desire to be real and much less religious, I was pondering the struggle of the many...
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Brandon Billings
Jan 22, 20133 min read
Weak Signals
The deeper I get into my thoughts this a.m. the more complex they become. On this first morning after our 44th President’s inauguration,...
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Brandon Billings
Jan 19, 20134 min read
Infatuation or Insomnia?
This morning I was up at 3:16! As I sat up in bed looking at the clock, I briefly wondered why I was so alert, until I realized that my...
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Brandon Billings
Jan 1, 20134 min read
My Life, a Commodity
I am becoming quite the fan of Wikipedia. Maybe it’s the ready availability of being only one screen away from a launching point of...
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Brandon Billings
Dec 17, 20123 min read
Forty Years
Here I am pondering life again, though now at a new plane as I approach the forty year mark of January 3, since my decision to follow...
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Brandon Billings
Dec 8, 20125 min read
Fixed Eyes
My life sometimes seems masochistic, for the deeper I yearn to be like Christ in the practical application of my faith in the...
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Brandon Billings
Dec 5, 20124 min read
Hebrews and Hellenists
As I continue my reading of scriptures, now in the Book of II Chronicles, the above categorization of human beings, shared in a recent...
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Brandon Billings
Dec 1, 20123 min read
Constructive Spiritual Tension
This morning, I sensed the source of tension often present in my decision making process as a political leader. I was reading a...
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