Ricky Rap: Talking to God on Good Friday

Ricky Rap is a list of 10 thoughts and offerings from Niagara’s own Rick Mills. Retired from more than 30 years of management in the steel industry, he continues pastoral ministry here in town. Ricky Rap, he says, is intended to help us to believe in and laugh at ourselves.

1. As a child raised in the Anglican church I always believed I could talk with God about anything. 

2. And I did. 

3. Still do. 

4. Never feared a hell. 

5. Believing the Creed we confessed, whatever hell was or is, Jesus defeated it. 

6. As a young adult, I was hearing people say you had to be "born again."

7. Didn't fully understand that either.

8. I do remember praying a prayer of surrender, to what I believed.

9. That changed everything. 

10. It's a Good Friday.