My New Blog

English: Icon of Jesus Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I did not grow up in a Christian home.  If you had asked any of us growing up, we would have told you that we were.  I guess you could say we were nominally Christian.  We considered ourselves Christian and we celebrated the Christian holidays, however, we rarely attended church when we were growing up.  Looking back, I am not sure we even attended church during the two major holidays of Christmas and Easter.

That is not to say that my parents didn't want us to learn about Jesus.  At Christmas, we always had a Nativity Scene to set up.  As a kid, it was one of my favorite things to do.  I always tried to find different ways to arrange all the different figurines.

Somewhere down the line, I did learn more about Christmas and Easter than Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.  I learned about the Nativity, Jesus' death on the cross, and his subsequent resurrection on Easter Sunday.

The purpose of this blog is to talk about my journey and the on again, off again relationship with Jesus Christ, who I believe is the Son of God who came to live among man in order that we can be forgiven our sins and reconciled to God the Father.  I will talk about the things that drew me to him, the things that have driven me away, and the things that help draw me back again. Unlike my other blog, Dickster's Random Thoughts, I will not dwell on politics unless it has something to do with the Christian world view.