Every now and again we need to confess what we believe in order to remind ourselves Whose we are and why we are here. This is a poem I wrote some years back that I read whenever I need my faith strengthened. I believe in God my Father;I believe in Christ His Son.I believe in […]
“The Holy Spirit does not perform His work in us in some disjointed, haphazard way. He does not exist to simply to help us cope with life, to get us through crises and to see us through lonely nights. He is not there just to pick us up and pump in a little more strength […]
Ten men in a sober house in Buffalo are doing a Bible study using the book I wrote with Pastor Bill Hicks called THE BIBLE REVEALED IN 10 STORIES. LINK If you’d like to receive a free PDF of this book to see what it is they are studying, send me an email at patrickday@pyramidpublishers.com. […]
A proud person acts and thinks on his/her own. When you take off the wrappings, pride is simply independence from God. Proud people make decisions based on their own reasoning, skills, and abilities. A humble person depends wholly on the Lord for everything in every circumstance. Humble people know the Lord has to direct them, […]
I asked Ricco at the Wright County Jail yesterday how he could be such a strong Christian and get into the trouble he did that landed him in jail for possibly a very long time. If you’ll remember, Ricco is a person I lean on for spiritual perspective. His answer was this. “Pat, before that […]
One of the men at Forging Freedom, a Christian sober house in Buffalo where I conduct a Bible study on Thursday evenings, got married two weeks ago. That may not seem remarkable to you, but it is. You see, Joe had been a meth addict for the past 20 years, up to two years ago […]
The Zoom screen opens up, and there’s Ricco, an inmate at the Wright County Jail I meet with once a week. “How did things go for you this past week?” I ask him. “Not good, Pat, not good. I let myself be overcome with all my problems (Ricco is facing up to 28 years in […]
Monday afternoons are my chaplain times at the Wright County Jail. I had been at the jail on Sunday for a Gideon Bible study. That Sunday (two days ago) only four inmates signed up. One of them was Corey. He was somewhat knowledgeable about the Bible, but I had a feeling that he wasn’t saved […]
The difference between the inmates I chaplain and us is that our sins dirty our souls and theirs put them in jail. This blog is from Ricco, a believer in the Wright County Jail whom I have come to know and love. “You ask me how I can be a believer and get myself in […]
This is a poem written by an inmate I’ve been visiting in jail. It will give you a glimpse of how men and women end up in jail and then turn to Jesus. Dangerous shortcuts I’ve taken all my life,They led me down lonely roads, ending with lots of strife.This is the enemy’s strongest tool,It […]