Devotional

I had the pleasure of receiving a note from a dear friend of mine Tuesday. He's ninety years old and we have been friends for almost 40 years. In fact, at one point he and I were friendly competitors in…

This week, we have had problems with our heat in the main part of our home. We called Bob, our heating contractor, to come out, run the semi annual check-ups and change the filters, etc. He told us that there…

We live in Carmel, Indiana where we moved from the northwest Chicago suburbs on Labor Day, 1982. Well, to be exact, I moved here then and Janet, along with the kids, moved here on Halloween weekend later that fall. Carmel…

It's the second Sunday of Advent, 2023 and today the next purple candle was lit during the morning church service. It is the candle representing the coming hope of Jesus entering the world. It is sometimes referred to as the…

We are at the end of the final day of the open enrollment period for Medicare 2024 and we have been getting up to 100 calls a day wanting to tell us about all the new benefits that we may…

Today is the first Sunday of Advent, 2023. The day marks the lighting of the first Advent candle, anticipating the arrival of the baby Jesus to be born in a stable in Bethlehem later this month. Advent is unusually late…

The huge servings of food started at Thanksgiving. But they didn't end there. The grocery stores are filled to the rafters with holiday specials on everything from beef tenderloins to hams - and every imaginable kind of dessert. Decorations are…

Well, Thanksgiving is over and we are on to Christmas! How quickly we forget about the turkey and move on toward gifts and, before that, decorating our homes and places of business! Most of us who are Christians decorate our…

I was too excited to sleep this morning. In fact, although I am not an early riser, I heard the grandfather clock in the hall strike 5:00 a.m. this morning. I almost felt like the little child on Christmas morning…

It's difficult to believe that it has been 160 years ago today since President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in the history of our country - the Gettysburg Address. This short speech, crafted by Lincoln himself,…