About The Book
Uniting Principles is divided into multiple sections, beginning with Testimonies and including the lead chapter, Personal and Professional Test. The sections which follow are, second, Asking What Jesus Would Do in the Principles of Life, and third, Living and Loving and Sermon and Church Inspired Topics. In these sections, I cover a very broad spectrum of topics in approximately 100 sometimes interrelated chapters that are important in our lives from a biblical perspective or according to his interpretation thereof.
Topics range from fairly obvious ones, like loving, mercy, grace, kindness, and forgiveness, to somewhat obscure ones. Some subjects stir controversy, like Choose Life AND Doing for Others Most in Need, which discusses how to virtually eliminate abortion. Many will be uncomfortable with the Common Sense Q&A chapter, which asserts that capitalism fuels Greed and Ego Run Amok. Some of my Christian friends weren’t fond of the chapter Compassion and Kindness – A Common Thread for Humanity, but love and kindness have no boundaries to me.
Thereafter, a Healing and Communication compilation is followed by Personal Stories, which provides context of who I once was, am today, and will become in my increasing faith.
There are dates on each predominately short chapter for frame of reference on the topic. At times, the dates enable the reader to follow my pathway for betterment in the Lord. We are never too old to yearn to learn and learn in Him.
I tried to maintain an anti-political stance, believing that both major parties in the U.S. political system are predominately ungodly. Their divisiveness and acrimony are a sign of end of days, or what I refer to as End of Centuries.
Like most any published works, there are usually a limited number of key themes or conclusions, and it is not uncommon to have one central them. That is true for Uniting Principles (Measured by Asking, “What Would Jesus Do?”), as there are several core and therefore repeated messages:
- In all interactions or actions of relative substance, we must channel the Lord, and ask what would Jesus do.
- In all interactions, we must show kindness, mercy, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, and most of all, love.
- We must be selfless servants, doing all we can for those most in
Like most of us, I am concerned that so much in this world doesn’t seem Godly and I thus embrace the Lord and await His second coming. That said, reconciling the readiness of all of my children and grandchildren is another matter.
Over millennia, the world has had periods of time, often lasting many decades, in which societies and their people strayed far from the Lord as hope for humanity waned. In the ebb and flow of our collective being, things got better in the past downtimes for most people, and they prayerfully will again. Uniting in so many ways is a big part of that betterment for the sake of all our children and the generations to follow.
No matter our chosen (or unchosen) faith, we have dramatically more in common than we do differences. Core Beliefs and Values, including loving one another, and acting on that love by Loving All Brothers and Sisters is needed. We must act with kindness, compassion, mercy and more, all shared by all good people and major religions. That includes loving our families and wanting a stable, better and kinder world.
Common sense and hopeful societal logic (if there are such a thing) tell us we must unite in so many ways to have a bright future or even a future at all. For believers and nonbelievers alike, the book offers myriad uniting solutions.