There is no replacement for hope.  Despair, and its cousin, depression, grow like weeds in modern minds because of a lie that is told and retold in our time. In our songs and our science we are told that only… Continue reading

Americans are a competitive lot, always comparing! We love lists: winners and losers, the 100 richest people, the worst-dressed, the best-dressed, who’s hot, who’s not. So, what’s the matter with that? It is destructive to all that is good, whole,… Continue reading

Every Christian is urged to “Read your Bible.”  Most of us own several of them.  I carry 8 versions in my pocket all the time; on my phone!  But … getting the most out of the Scripture is no easy… Continue reading

Don’t we love being an ‘’insider?”  Getting the scoop, owning privileged information, is something that started when we were kids in school.  That ‘secret’ that is whispered on the playground does not stay a secret for very long, however.  Everybody… Continue reading

Monday morning – a new week stretches out in front of us.  What is on your agenda?  Maybe you are among the fortunate and, being August, you are on a break at the beach or in the mountains.  Or, perhaps… Continue reading

I muse this morning while watching my wife sleep in a hospital bed.  I read a Facebook post by a friend that their unborn baby’s life here on earth closed after a short 20 weeks.  In a few hours, I… Continue reading

In the last 10 days, death has visited the congregation I pastor 4 times!  Last night, as a long day was ending, one in which sorrow visited in several different ways,  I myself thinking about Heaven. My thoughts were not… Continue reading

I used to consume the daily news, reading the Op-Ed page, watching stories with interest. But, the anger that feeds the news from all parties, makes it such a toxic brew that I am now choosing to watch less, much… Continue reading

Are you wrestling with sorrow this Monday morning? Has a sense of futility crept up and tried to throw a dark shadow over you?  Are you confused by circumstances that defy explanation?  There is a phrase buried in a Psalm… Continue reading

Nicky’s Family is a documentary (Netflix) telling the amazing story of Nicholas Winton’s efforts to save Jewish children from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War 2.  Winton was a stockbroker, 29 years of age, preparing for… Continue reading