This morning my inbox included an email that announced a deposit to my bank account! It is payday. I like deposits. Another email today notified me that my November mortgage payment would be deducted on Monday!  Here today, gone tomorrow. … Continue reading

We pray, “may your Kingdom come and Your will be done.”  Are those just old, familiar words or do they flow from a real desire? Do we want Christ to be in charge?  Sometimes the frightful state of the world… Continue reading

Elijah’s victory on Mt. Carmel was followed by a terrible depression.  He ran off, alone, into the wilds and complained to the Lord: “Nobody ever comes through for me. I am so lonely.  I’m the only one left here who… Continue reading

Our church hosted a children’s choir from World Help Ministries on Sunday night.  Little ones from Nepal, the Philippines, Uganda, and Honduras sang with their whole hearts about Jesus. Between songs we were reminded of the poverty, malnutrition, and lack… Continue reading

I serve as pastor of the congregation that my father served before me for 29 years.  I hear this often – “The older you get, the more you sound like your Dad!” It’s not conscious imitation. DNA and training are… Continue reading

Bev and I met with her doctor yesterday. She finished her chemo rounds 3 weeks ago and last week had follow up tests.  When we discussed it all, he told her that further chemo was not needed, and that she… Continue reading

Maintenance is constant in this world where things break, decay, and fall apart. I’m always fixing something on my house, a piece of siding that comes loose, a door that gets hard to open, a faucet that drips. I could… Continue reading

That apple pie was right around the corner in the kitchen.  I resisted for a half-hour, my thoughts turning again to the possibility of enjoyment that could be mine with minimal effort.  In the end temptation won. That was just pie… Continue reading

In a long reading of the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles, I read name after name, records of Israel’s history. In the text are scattered notes; about where a clan lived, about some event in a man’s life, and then… Continue reading

“Be holy as I am holy,” is the Lord’s word to Christians. He wants us to live a distinct kind of life, separate from the world around us, characterized by the beauty of spiritual fruit. Should a Christian spend time… Continue reading