St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice. My wife tells me the crowd of tourists is so dense it takes hours just to approach the door. Although it is easier to gain seating at our local church,
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Author: Will Schmit
Will Schmit is a volunteer outreach prison minister for Lifehouse Church in McKinleyville Ca. He is the author of Head Lines A Sixty Day Guide to Personal Psalmistry and Jesus Inside A Prison Minister's Memoir and Training Manual both available at Amazon Books and www.schmitbooks.com. The website also includes poetry, ministry updates, and music downloads from Bring To Glory a CD of spoken word with coffee house jazz.
Marriage Rite or Wrong
Marriage is a mystery, miracle, sacrament and a modern tragedy. A man shall leave mother and father and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one. The one they become is something new, something neither
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A famous author I never heard of recently commented during an NPR interview that he had lost the capacity for faith. Some people cook, some people sing, some people believe in eternal consequences. He doesn’t.
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Addictions suck. They’re designed to suck love from the heart, reason from the mind and connection from the soul. They do the job intended. Drugs get you high, alcohol gets you drunk, pornography gets you
Read moreRoad Warriors
My Dad was a traveling salesman. There might be a joke in there somewhere, but his form of employment isn’t it. I’ve been a salesman most of my life, but I work on the phone,
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Faith involves muscle. Moving mountains isn’t finger crossing. Our walk requires the next step and the step after that. Something about an extra mile… Pick up the phone and call, or text, the wild child
Read moreNail Biting Suspension
In God we trust. Even a counterfeit knows that. But do we, do I, trust Jesus? You can easily trust God because it’s more general. “Hey you can trust Me, I made the universe. Speed
Read moreNew Jail Same Jesus
The full armor of God now comes in Kevlar. My gate keeper handed me my vest as we waited for the first of five electronic doors to slide open under the glint of sunlight on
Read moreThe Cuppa
Every place at the café was taken. The lady with the eye shadow matching her porcelain bracelets was smiling over the morning paper as if she had written it herself. Not that I can read
Read moreThe Apprentice
The idea that Jesus is working on building our mansions in heaven rankled somebody, “I’d like it better if He put a little time into getting me a crib when I get out of here, or I’m in danger of coming back in.” Is there a silver lining to serve that sentiment? It put a little wrench in our discussion. We only have forty five minutes til the guards close the chapel for the evening and as the Pastor I’d prefer to end on a high note rather than a point of contention.
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