Throughout the years, I have been asked to perform all kinds of services for members of the Christian community. I have performed hundreds of rehearsals and weddings, numerous funerals, opening prayers at receptions and corporate meetings; and I have taught…
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It was one year ago last night that Janet and I had the scariest moment in our almost 50 years of marriage. We had cancelled dinner plans with a friend of ours. Janet felt a little under the weather so…
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Our Bible study has been together for more than a quarter of a century and we have studied the entire New Testament as well as most of the Old Testament. We have approached this study by alternating Old and New…
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Yesterday evening we witnessed the first presidential assassination attempt in 43 years, when a deranged young man attempted to kill President Reagan. Thankfully, he survived the attack, as did former President Trump, but in both instances, people were hurt and…
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Last night, I went online to begin this post and tried to login to the TBTB dashboard that allows me to create the content that you see each time I publish one of my posts. I was immediately met with…
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There are many ways to evangelize. Sometimes, it is going out of our comfort zone and approaching people who we believe may be receptive to hearing about the Good News. Other times, our best approach may be to demonstrate a…
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The last several weeks have given Janet and me a unique set of challenges. We are healthy, well mostly, but we both have little physical things that are annoyances and I have been mindful of praying for healing whenever I…
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Almost twenty five years ago, I started my advanced education at seminary when I was 47 years old. I was very interested in learning the original languages of the Bible, primarily Hebrew and Greek (I didn’t study Aramaic). I chose…
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Our oldest daughter, Kristin, turned 49 earlier this week - and that’s difficult to believe. It seems like yesterday that she was born at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in downtown Chicago. I also won’t ever forget what it felt like…
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I’ve been teaching in the psalms the last month or so and as you probably know, the psalms are divided into five different sections - representing the five books of the Penteteuch written by Moses. We are currently in the…
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