The church building is filled this week with life! I love it! Kids are everywhere. Adults planning games, stories, and songs are talking together, drawn together by the work. I know of at least three people working our Vacation Bible… Continue reading

I am in the mood to reflect this morning, being my 54th birthday. A collage of faces and a chorus of voices play through my memory today; of the good people who have mentored me. There’s my Dad, now with… Continue reading

When I was 18 I earned my pilot’s license. Part of instruction in flying was something called ‘being under the hood.’ George Kouba would hand me this strange looking plastic device that went on my head like a cap with… Continue reading

When does a person cross the line from trusting God to ‘forcing God to act’ with presumption? What is simple faith that includes God’s perspective and what is foolishness that ignores the need to make hard decisions? Those are not… Continue reading

People tell me about their troubles and I’m glad to share the burden. I hear things like:“Why did my girlfriend break our engagement?”“My brother in law may have cancer.”“My marriage isn’t working and I’m being tempted by someone else.”“As of… Continue reading

Pictures, sounds, smells, faces- an amazing collage of information out of which I formulate memories – is stored in the billions of cells that form that lump between my ears called a brain! On Sunday, Bev and I set off… Continue reading

Ed Thomas, high school football coach from Parkersburg, IA, was shot and killed on Wednesday morning by a man who formerly played on his team. Thomas, 58, was a family man, a phenomenal coach who sent several guys into the… Continue reading

It was reported that Judge Sotomayor, the recent nominee to the Supreme Court, has moments when she feels a sense of inadequacy for her work as a Federal Judge, not because she lacks credentials, but because she feels so human,… Continue reading

There’s an old story (it exists in many forms on the Internet!) about two friends were walking together when they came to a high wall. It stretched into the hills on both horizons. “So, Freddy,” Pete said, “I think we’ll… Continue reading

It just all got to me today. Church ministry budgets that don’t balance, human needs for which I have no quick fix, a crazy mixed up world that seems to be getting more upside down recently – these things pressed… Continue reading