Devotional

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,…

I always become reflective this time of year as we get ready to start the holiday season. For some reason, I look back on my life and all the various roles I have played in the family throughout the decades.…

Today, November 2nd, is one of the more obscure days in our contemporary calendar. Of course, we are all familiar with Halloween, or All Hallow's Eve, as it is sometimes called and many of us are also familiar with November…

For the past fifty years that Janet and I have been married, our number one nuisance has been damage from water in our homes. So Janet knew something was wrong when I ran upstairs yesterday morning and let her know…