As you know, during this month I am focusing my Sunday and Wednesday messages on the church. Specifically, the seven churches written about in the book of Revelation. Jesus wanted the churches to be encouraged, yet be challenged. It is
One question some have asked me as I have pastored churches is “are you a New Testament or Old Testament preacher?” Well, the answer to that question depends. I have never thought much about it because I just preach from
This past week, there were several days when I sat at my hospice desk thinking about the future. I don’t normally do this, but this week I did. I thought about the fact that I am in my fifth year
Our family took the down time this week-end to put together a 550 piece puzzle. We started on Thursday evening and finished up Sunday afternoon. We didn’t do it all at one time. Instead, when someone felt the desire to
I hope everyone was able to stay safe and warm during our snow/ice event this past weekend. I love the way the ice looks on the trees, but don’t like the risk of driving on it. I’m glad we were
We are a week into the new year and I feel the need to ask you, “how are your resolutions going?” Are you working on keeping the resolutions you made, if you made them? I will admit I made my
I remember taking trips with my parents when I was really young. At that age, I was not aware of the time it was taking to make the trip. The only words I seemed to know were, “are we almost
As I mentioned in my message on Sunday, November 28th, we were going on a trip. We knew where the trip was going to take us, and that was to the manger in Bethlehem, for Jesus’ birth. Boy, how fast
“And now, these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV). During the past few weeks, we have been preparing our minds for Christ’s birth by talking about hope, peace and
So far, we have talked about two things we need in our lives. We have talked about hope and peace. These are words that we find to give us encouragement to get through the next hour, the next day or