In her column, Connie Schultz reports, “St. John’s Reformed United Church of Christ is a 225-year-old church in rural Middlebrook, Va. On Wednesday, the outgoing message on the church phone still invited you to buy tickets for May’s spaghetti supper,… Continue reading

One of my favorite Scripture stories is that of Daniel – whose Hebrew name means “God is my Judge.” Most likely from a family of prominence in Judah, he was swept up in the first Assyrian invasion and taken to… Continue reading

Robert Burns, the 18th century Scottish poet, wrote of the poor mouse whose nest was torn up by the farmer’s plow. “The best laid schemes o’ mice and menGang aft a-gley, (go oft awry)And leaves us naught but grief and… Continue reading

It doesn’t get much more dead than Ezekiel’s vision of the valley of dry bones! Familiar with it? In the 37th chapter of his book, the prophet tells of being set in the middle of a valley that was full… Continue reading

When I anticipate a big expense I like to set aside money to meet it so that when the bill arrives, I know that the resource needed is ‘in the bank.’ When there are more expenses than there are resources,… Continue reading

Missed expectations, irritating circumstances, miserable people, tragedy… the list of causes for disappointment is a long one. Disappointment ranges across a wide spectrum of emotions – the awful to the merely unpleasant. Finding out that the person to whom you’re… Continue reading

This news clip was on the AP site this morning.Pittsburgh- “James Henry Smith loved his country. He served in Vietnam and spent 25 years in the Army, Army Reserve and National Guard. But the 55-year-old Garfield man also had love… Continue reading

Gavin, my grandson who is 3 years old, is growing in his awareness of God. Before we ate dinner, he prayed to thank God for our food and his family. At bedtime, he makes sure to instruct Daddy about giving… Continue reading

Watching “Coach Carter,” a true story of a high school basketball coach who taught his players that life is more than just being a star on the court, is a great way to spend an evening. One of the highlight… Continue reading

The Declaration of Independence, the document drafted and circulated in these colonies that sparked the revolution, focused on the acts of the British monarch that many of the American colonials found intolerable. It was a document that re-defined the way… Continue reading