John 9:1-3 "And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." This passage was one of my little nephew Michael's favorite Bible passages. Right before Michael's death, he told his mom that he thought that he was like the blind man. In Pieces of the Puzzle, Tom Poteet leads the reader through a series of discoveries based on life experiences and...

For years, Tom Poteet has been questioning formalized religion. Since his youth, he has wondered why the Christian Church failed to concentrate on Christ, instead spending the bulk of its time teaching the Epistles of Paul. Though readings from the Gospels and Epistles were given, in church, sermons seemed to be concentrated on what Paul had written; not what Jesus had said and done. In Poteet's decades of questioning, prayer and writing, he has been able to put some of his harder questions down on paper, questions concerning why religions separate the very children of our Father; what...

Tom Poteet was watching the evening news and saw a preview for a forthcoming evening-news special. The preview portrayed a popular evening news anchors speaking with a young man who had stolen secrets from the U.S. government and had given them to a foreign news outlet. The young man was no longer living in the United States. He was being shielded by another nation. In the preview, there was an inference that this young man might be a hero . . . might have done something worthy and heroic in giving away how this nation collects its intelligence. Tom turned off the news. The implication that a...