Do you feel guilty “bothering” God about helping you achieve a work-related goal when your neighbor is praying for his wife to be healed from COVID?
God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.”
I saw a music video post on Facebook the other day from my friend Mark Davis. It was Procol Harum’s classic, “Whiter Shade of Pale.” One of Ma…
Is America imploding? Is there any hope for our divided nation?
Most everybody knows the classic Disney song from Snow White. You may have sung it a thousand times, but like me, you may have been singing it…
Bert and I were saddened when we heard our friend, Wallace, had only weeks to live due to advanced leukemia. Six months later, though he never…
I called my friend Fred on Thursday morning, for no particular reason. I found him in a bad mood. I knew this because he said, “You’ve found m…
One winter morning back in 1999, I was looking out the window waiting for the geese that always arrived around that time so I could watch them…
Do some of your actions contradict your commitment to your savior? Do some of your choices indicate that you don’t love God as much as you say…
Words. I love words. I love to work with them, and I love to play with them. The use of words, both orally and written, are a major part of ma…
I used to share an acronym in New Testament class so students could remember Paul’s four prison letters: ECPP, representing Ephesians, Colossi…
Are you working hard at your career or ministry and trusting God to use you?
Observations from the past week:
What if our faith was never tested? Would we grow?
‘God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.”
One of my favorite seasons of the year has arrived.
Captain James T. Kirk commanded the Starship Enterprise for many years, and in this role, visited planets all over the universe. When he was r…
I’ve had a few, but they don’t seem to be such a big deal anymore. Birthdays…I’m talking about birthdays, not presents.
I’m writing from my hotel room in Billings, Montana. We will get to Glacier National Park this evening where our son Matt is this summer. We w…
It happened when the designated youth minister reveled in the adulation of the youth. Maybe he was strikingly handsome, or she could sing like…
We are headed to Montana next week, on a trip to Glacier National Park to visit my son Matt and his girlfriend Sara, who decided they’d spend …
What do you call a piece of spaghetti wearing a false mustache?
I met him in an unusual place in 1995.
Well, it’s July…again. You know what that means, don’t you? yes, it does mean the celebration of Independence Day, but I was speaking about so…
It was about 75 years ago on a little farm in Fruita, Colorado when Mrs. Clara Olsen sent her husband Lloyd out into the yard with a mission t…
How would your friends or your boss describe you? Would your spouse, roommate or sibling describe you any differently?
Last week I was telling of a trip to the Gulf Coast and trying to save a few dollars by a different travel route. KM was not that impressed, h…