The world never stands still, does it?  How do you deal with the unceasing demands of living? The homes we live in must be maintained:  a screw tightened, a leak repaired, a roof replaced … Our relationships require tending, too.… Continue reading

I’m loving Springtime. The green lawn, the warmer days, the expectation of Summer trips, these things bring me a lot of happiness.  And, I am choosing JOY.  Thirty years ago, while I sat in my darkened office, in a real… Continue reading

This Easter was, for me, one of the more meaningful in memory. Most of us like the flowers, the joyful songs, the positive sermons that come with the day, don’t we?   The mess that is COVID, a year’s worth of… Continue reading

Online people are having fun posting the ‘countdown’ that is tomorrow’s date.  4, 3, 2, 1.  With all of the chaos that is life these days there is more talk about the Second Coming, the ‘Last Days.’ I do not… Continue reading

I am grateful for science. Getting into a hot shower with water pumped into my home, waking to a climate-controlled home in comfort, having an automobile to drive me to work, understanding more about the working of my body so… Continue reading

In my Scripture readings this Holy Week I am ‘walking with Jesus’ in the final chapters of Matthew. These passages are not among the most enjoyable in the Gospels, to be sure. They are full of challenge, confrontation, and conflict.… Continue reading

Yesterday I was privileged to ‘join’ a few hundred others from around the world in an online prayer meeting.  At one point I knelt in my living room, face down to the floor, in humble acknowledgement of God, my heart… Continue reading

Does your faith connect to life? Does the Spirit produce the fruit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control) that is evidence of a living relationship with the Lord in you? Jesus began what we call “Holy… Continue reading

Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, has an interesting history. He enjoyed great success and failure more than once. The man whose gravelly voice kept England’s morale up through the war, was… Continue reading

On Tuesday, my youngest daughter called.  “Dad, if you have time, I’d like to email you our home inspection report. Would you be able to look it over?”  Christine is a bright woman, well-educated, uber-responsible, and very competent. But, she… Continue reading