I am teaching through the Johannine epistles and we are currently in the book of 1 John. Talk is primarily about the command that Jesus gave us to love one another. But we have also discussed good and evil -…
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I believe that we serve a very patient God - who waits to have our undivided attention when He has something to share. So... if we are busy during the day, it isn't unusual that God will wait for the…
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For the past five weeks or so I have been teaching the Soul Sisters at our church on Thursday mornings. Each semester, they choose a book to study and this spring we are in the Johannine epistles and the short…
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Two weeks from today, God willing, I will turn 70. And this summer, again God willing, Janet and I will celebrate 50 years of marriage. Or, as a friend of mine said, Janet and I will have been married 100…
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The last Thursday of the month of January has become a day to honor those astronauts who have lost their lives in the pursuit of the conquest of space. Most people don't realize that there have been three tragedies that…
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I am not naturally a technology guy. Back in the 1980’s I took the position that if I didn’t worry about technology, it would somehow go away and I would never have to worry about it again. But that was…
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Every once in a while, I am asked to fill in for a pastor who is ill, gone on a trip or otherwise unable to lead the church temporarily. I have helped out in Tipton, IN, Indianapolis, Noblesville, IN and…
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It was on this day in 1998 that Ted Kaczynski, dubbed the Unabomber, pleaded guilty to the federal charges against him, ending more than 17 years of bombings attributed to him. Having attended Harvard at the young age of 16…
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I'm kind of particular about my Bibles. In fact, I have an entire bookcase of them. They include a small New Testament that my grandmother gave me on my 10th birthday, the Bibles that Janet and I received when we…
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One of the questions that I get asked from time to time is what is the requirement to be considered a "Christian." It turns out that if you ask most people why they think that they are going to heaven,…
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