Dark Christmas
The cruelest part of the Christmas story is found in Matthew 2:16-18. Herod had asked the Wise Men to report back to him when they found...
The Perfect Gift
Christmas is coming again. We look forward to it, yet it scares us to know there are only "___ shopping days left." There is a lot of...
Advent snow
Snow really goes with Christmas. When I was growing up in Spencer, New York, we children really looked forward to snow. There were so...
Giving Thanks Today
Thank you, God. Hands, feet, eyes, ears, taste. Your many gifts I often waste. Thank you, God. Family, neighbors, many a friend. I wish I...
Need Extra Hours?
God has been known to manufacture time. In Joshua 10:12-14, God actually made the sun stay in place for a whole day, so the Israelites...
Not a Club
The church is not a club. Well, it's like a club or civic organization in some ways. We come together for regular meetings. We...
Big Visits
It's amazing how powerful the act of visiting another person is becoming. Have you noticed? We don't visit other people like we used to,...
Messy Desk
One idea that time-management experts don't seem to agree on is a clean desk. Does it pay to have your work area tidy? If your desk is...
God Forgets?
Does God forget our trespasses? Well, not exactly. God is not absent-minded. Psalm 103:12 says that God removes our sins from us "as...
Out of Focus
Read any good books lately? I'm reading some books right now, and that's a real shame. As of this morning, I'm in the middle of nineteen...