Would you like to walk through this ‘holy day’ Season and gain strength, feel renewed, and be deepened in faith? Will you be one of those who fails to take away the renewal of spirit that the Season seems to… Continue reading

During WWII, the phrase ‘battle fatigue’ was coined to describe the emotional state of those soldiers who were mentally broken by the stresses of warfare. It would show up in different ways – loss of sight, hearing, paralysis. Excessive anxiety… Continue reading

When I met Bev, now my wife of 30 years, I fell in love quickly. In the months that we dated, we lived about an hour apart. After I finished my work as the Youth Pastor of the church I… Continue reading

Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? If you’re like a majority of Americans, even here just a week before the Day, you still have people on your gift list without a matching present! We approach our Christmas shopping from… Continue reading

Recently the leaders in our church and I talked about ‘outreach.’ As we were discussing how to organize a part of our mission we considered whether the focus of our efforts should be primarily on preserving what exists or increasing… Continue reading

Driving home in the darkness last night, I took note of the lights. I saw a house where the decorating was a work of beauty, symmetrical white lights strung neatly, tastefully done, that showed an artist’s eye and a craftsman’s… Continue reading

A person of immature understandings recently said, “I don’t pray much because I believe God has already decided what will happen.” She were sincere, but had missed much of what the Bible teaches us about how God works. An authority… Continue reading

When I was a little boy, my Dad took me to Wyoming, to remote areas far off of the roads, where we visited shepherds tending large flocks of sheep! Yes, it’s true. There in the mountains near Buffalo, WY, were… Continue reading

Every generation has ‘marker‘ days, days on which an event that changed the course of history occurred. My generation will always remember September 11, 2001 simply as “9/11” the day that terrorists brought their hatred to the United States –… Continue reading

Joy in serving? Groundhog Day, a 1993 comedy, is a parable. Seen it? Bill Murray plays the role of Phil Connors, a TV reporter who finds himself in a time loop, reliving Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, PA, over and over… Continue reading