Conversations About Faith

Regardless of one’s feelings about Father’s Day 2025

By Steven Brodsky

… it is possible to hold on to (or to acquire) the joy of the Lord.

 

What is the joy of the Lord? | GotQuestions.org

Have a blessed Father’s Day.

Matthew 19:26: “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

Posted 6-15-25

With Father’s Day weekend 2025 near

By Steven Brodsky

… a movie recommendation: The Forge.

https://biblehub.com/proverbs/27-17.htm

How should I understand the concept of the Father God? | GotQuestions.org

Posted 6-12-25

The time that is set aside for a ‘sweet hour of prayer’

By Steven Brodsky

… allows for a time of communion with Him, the eternal God of the Bible.

“Sweet Hour of Prayer” has stood the test of (temporal) time: The hymn’s lyrics, by William W. Walford, a blind preacher, were first published in the Observer on September 13, 1845.

Posted 6-10-25

The Hoppers to perform a concert in Coleman Park (located in Lebanon, Pennsylvania) on Sunday, June 22, 2025

By Steven Brodsky

… The concert will start at 6:00 p.m.

There will be no admission charge. Pay-what-you-will.

Visit https://musicinthepark.net/event/the-hoppers/ for additional information.

Posted 6-9-25

The testimony-as-song lyrics

By Steven Brodsky

… in Ben Fuller’s “Since Jesus” syncs with the life experiences of other born again followers of Jesus, including some of the frequent visitors to this page of the Entertainment, Culture and More column.

Posted 6-5-25

‘NO PRISONER’

By Steven Brodsky

Wow:

“Oh my future’s not my past / I’m not going back,” sings Stephen McWhirter in “NO PRISONER.”

Those words can be said by readers of this column who know God as their Lord and Savior.

https://www.gotquestions.org/born-again.html

Posted 6-1-25

Rivers of living water

By Steven Brodsky

… flow from the depths of believers in Jesus.

See John 7:38: https://biblehub.com/nasb/john/7-38.htm.

How wonderful!

If you have questions about John 7:38, visit: https://www.gotquestions.org/rivers-of-living-water.html.

Posted 5-29-25

Column readers who’ve ever expressed hard-fought hallelujahs

By Steven Brodsky

… will likely find this video of Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll performing “Hard Fought Hallelujah” at the Grand Ole Opry to be especially resonant:

Posted 5-16-25

God’s ‘path of life’

By Steven Brodsky

Psalm 16:11: “Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.”

The center of God’s “path of life” is the best place to be!

Posted 5-13-25

Actually, I believe that more than 10,000 reasons could be found by some believers and followers of God, if they were given sufficient time (and maybe some godly coaching assistance)

By Steven Brodsky

… reasons for them to bless and worship the Lord!

May we continue to find many compelling reasons to bless and worship the Lord!

Posted 5-8-25

Magnolia trees will be in bloom

By Steven Brodsky

… this season, spring, in regions where most of this column’s readers reside.

Magnolias in bloom are beautiful.

Also beautiful, is the autobiographical story of a “magnolia mother’s love” lyricized in this song: Billy Joe Shaver Magnolia Mother’s Love (youtube.com).

This spring and in the seasons to come, may agape love be in abundant bloom in our lives.

https://www.gotquestions.org/agape-love.html

Posted 4-9-25

As spring has sprung

By Steven Brodsky

… in the Northern Hemisphere and the earth is bringing “forth her bud,” it’s especially opportune to share Isaiah 61:11.

Isaiah 61:11: “For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.”

Posted 3-25-25

Will you be going to ‘where the wicked shall cease their troubling’?

By Steven Brodsky

… That place: heaven.

Hopefully, we’ll meet there some day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09sWkMK4uY4

The above linked performance video of “The Wicked Shall Cease Their Troubling” featuring Jessy Dixon was previously linked in this section of the Entertainment, Culture and More column.

It came to mind as I was writing an article today that included an embed of “April Come She Will,” a Simon & Garfunkel song that was written by Paul Simon. That article appears at: Conversations With Writers And More delcoculturevultures.com.

It was then that I recalled that Paul Simon had seen Jessy Dixon in concert at Radio City Music Hall in 1972, and that Paul Simon invited Jessy Dixon to sing with him on Saturday Night Live, and that the two would go on to tour together in the U.S. and overseas for eight years.

Jessy Dixon passed away on September 26, 2011 at age 73.

Posted 3-14-25

In memory of someone that I cared deeply about 

By Steven Brodsky

… This person, whose name I will not reveal (out of deference to the person’s family), passed away soon after being placed for the first time onto a “hospice bed.”

A photo that I received of this person that was taken just prior to the person being assisted onto what would be the person’s deathbed, shows a terrified look on the person’s face.

I believe that the terrified look captured in the photo was at least in part due to the person’s not having made things right with God (as far as I know).

I would not presume to know how God judged my dear friend.

Terrifying to the maximum would be to hear God saying the words that appear in Matthew 7:23.

About those words: https://www.gotquestions.org/I-never-knew-you-depart-from-me.html.

Oh yes, dear readers, “love the people that God gives you”… “one day He’ll want them back.” Scroll down this page to read the article “Aaron Wilburn’s The People That God Gives You.”

I loved my friend; God has taken my friend back.

Posted 3-11-25

One of the blessings of the godly in more advanced years

By Steven Brodsky

… is the capacity to continue to bear (wonderful/prime) fruit.

What a blessing that is, as the psalmist no doubt had observed prior to penning Psalm 92!

Take special note of Psalm 92:14: https://www.blueletterbible.org/nlt/psa/92/1/s_570001.

Posted 1-22-25

Aaron Wilburn’s ‘The People That God Gives You’

By Steven  Brodsky

… was referenced here in the summer of 2020.

Circumstances of life have affirmed the value of the song’s message for me and many others.

I first heard “The People That God Gives You” on the syndicated radio show that Paul Heil hosted for many decades.

The song has continued to be a blessing to me (and I believe to some of the people that God has given me).

Be blessed.

1 John 4:7-8:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Paul Heil was interviewed for this column in 2018 and 2016. The interviews are accessible at: https://delcoculturevultures.com/2017/03/14/a-conversation-with-paul-heil-host-of-the-gospel-greats-syndicated-radio-show/.

Posted 9-5-24

‘Sweeter than honey’

By Steven Brodsky

… was the taste of God’s words to the psalmist.

Psalm 119:103: ^“How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”

This verse came to my mind while I was enjoying a spoonful of wildflower honey a few minutes ago.

Some of this column’s readers will recall the verse the next time they taste honey.

And some will recall the verse when they next taste the sweetness of the Bible.

Posted 8-27-24