Americans like to have ‘more!’  One example is the size of a ‘fast food’ meal – hamburger, fries, and beverage – which is now two times larger than it was in 1975.  Our waste disposals overflow with stuff no longer… Continue reading

“Let’s have breakfast!” The invitation is more than about eating some eggs and toast together. We laugh, tell stories, and grow a friendship! There is something about sitting down over a meal that bonds people. Family dinnertimes are among my… Continue reading

Just a few days ago in Jerusalem the Communion elements were prepared for us in a room steps away from a Tomb where some believe the body of Jesus was laid. Our voices raised in song, “In Christ alone, my… Continue reading

Who’s boss in your life? We all have many different ‘bosses,’ people who make demands of us, who require us to act in specified ways.  Most deal with a manager at work. A healthy marriage includes moments when one spouse… Continue reading

The sites, sounds, and ideas that I gathered during the days spent in Israel are still sorting themselves out in my mind. The place of the Bible in shaping my life, understanding what God says through His word, became even… Continue reading

On the flight home from Israel yesterday, an older gentleman from Jerusalem was seated next to me. He asked me why I had been Israel in his heavily accented English, after pronouncing his pride in being a born Israeli who… Continue reading

Somebody said “if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.”  Emerson was a bit more eloquent in phrasing the same idea. “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs,… Continue reading

So what is the worst sin?  Lust? Greed? Materialism? Violence? While those choices cause harm to ourselves and others as well as offending our God, none of those is the worst. Well, then perhaps the worst sinner is the murderer,… Continue reading

“You two are not my favorite people right now!”  Our teenager flung those words at us in anger because we had disciplined her for failure to follow the rules. Many years after the fact the memory makes me laugh. In… Continue reading

The young baroness, newly arrived in Kenya, went for a ride into the bush, not knowing the dangers. When she got down from her horse, she failed to take her rifle from the saddle’s scabbard. Suddenly the horse bolted and… Continue reading