The Greatest Gift As we very quickly approach Christmas, it’s so easy to get swept up in the hustle and bustle of the season – the late night...
Plans What plans did you recently have that did not turn out as you expected? It happens to all of us; we make plans, and God laughs. For the...
Advent 2024 For the past few months, we have been in 1 John and have been encouraged throughout to listen to the Holy Spirit. Our last sermon was about...
Thankful 2024 About 25 years ago, on the week of Thanksgiving, I sat down one night to pour out thanks. This was my first Thanksgiving as a Christian,...
Car Alarm Tears July 2021. It was the middle of the night (2:30 a.m. to be exact), and the after-market car alarm on the new-to-me-minivan was going off...
Input = Output What we put into our minds matters. What we believe has a real impact on our lives. In 1990, I got a job at UPS loading trucks, and my mind...
A Burning Question I have been through the Bible a few times in my life. I have sat in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, walked through the Red Sea with...
Memory Lane I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, in a neighborhood with green grass, houses ½ acre apart and no fences. All the neighbors knew each...
Block That Punch When my second daughter and my son were younger, we signed them up for karate classes (their older sister preferred ballet). Twice a week,...