Who is God? NOT ME! In 1985, I was 22 (for my era readers, cue the Jackson Brown song: “Runnin’ on Empty”). I had just tossed my college...

The Simple Truth By the time our days have ended, each of us will either reconcile what has caused our separation from God, our creator...

“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the...

Psalm 23 “The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he...

Our Varied Responses to Jesus Christ During the Triumphal Entry of Jesus, on the Monday before Passover in A.D. 33 (estimated year), as...

Monitoring the Heart In order to be cleared for surgery I had to have a pre-op appointment by a cardiologist. Several tests have been...

In my childhood years I grew up in a home that was designed with entertaining in mind…both inside and out. The pool area had a fully...

Home What creates the feeling of being “home”? Does our experience of home point to something deeply spiritual and eternal? I have lived...

For the Empty Nester We have been in the empty nest category since 2013 when our youngest child started college and moved across the...

Community within the Church Ten years ago our church began to formalize and promote the idea of “community groups” within our church....

On an episode of ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’, a TV sitcom from the 1970’s, Vinnie Barbarino meets someone he is crazy about. Because they...

When Robin Williams died, there was a lot of discussion about his battle with depression and chemical dependence, ending in the ultimate...

Anticipating the Suffering Suffering is something we will inevitably experience at some point in our lives. It’s a given. Recently I have...

This morning I was telling a joke I had just made up and my three-year-old granddaughter laughed. She got it! It was a joke for more...

When reading the account of how the Apostle Paul became a follower of Jesus, he starts out as “Saul”, the persecutor of The Way (now...

Darkness is finally falling. It’s 12:47am on June 5th in Alaska. The day has been unusually hot and the heat remains in the house, even...

"Choose Thy Love, Love Thy Choice" I Corinthians 13:4-7 “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It...

True Humility Recently I have been striving to have more humility. It’s a characteristic I want, and I know it does not come naturally to...

#MothersDay #FirstMothersDayWithoutHer #MissingMyMom My mom recently passed away at age 95. She lived a long and joyful, but also...

My mom is now 95 1/2. That "1/2 matters". I was here visiting her in Florida 6 months ago and things have changed since then. Care was...