I love my church. My church doesn’t seat more than a thousand. There are no giant screen televisions up front. In fact, you can see really well from every seat. We don’t have camera men running around providing close up shots for the giant screens. We […]
Month: April 2014
What’s So Good About Good Friday
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Cor. 5:21 Good Friday is strangely celebrated. Some observe it as a day of prayer and fasting. In some traditions, there […]
Cryosurgery
I had a really productive day yesterday. I had cryosurgery at 8:20 in the morning. Before you send me flowers or plan providing meals during my recovery period, you should perhaps know that my cryosurgery consisted of freezing some “pre-cancerous” lesions on my bald head. […]
Tax Day
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with […]
Joy of Blogging
I have blogged since December 2009. The first post was a group of Christmas pictures from that year. Sometime before that, I can’t seem to discover when, I started sending daily devotionals to my church prayer list. With my pastor’s encouragement, it grew from there. […]
Hearing the Voice of God
A couple of days ago I was working inside while my wife was working in the garden. I recognized her voice and then thought I heard a second voice. I wondered who was visiting but it turned out my wife was talking to herself. I […]
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Over the past few years I’ve changed from being a news junkie to being a sports junkie. I used to have a television news channel on all day when at home. I would have a news channel on the radio while in my truck. Even […]
Beautiful Spring
Yesterday my wife and I spent hours working in our yard. You would have to describe us as “spring” gardeners. When the good weather hits we work feverishly in the yard. We buy plants. Sometimes we even plant them. You see by the time the […]