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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Well, we are about twelve days into the New Year! New habits take about 21 days to form, 21 more days to become routine and finally, another 21 days to be reinforced and become “habit.” However, the greatest risk of…
It was on this day, January 8th, in 1835 that President Andrew Jackson achieved his personal goal of paying off the entire U.S. national debt – all $120 million of it. Consequently, this was the only time in U.S. history…
Our second daughter, Jill, was supposed to be born on or about December 18, 1977. But, as is the case with babies, she apparently didn’t get the memo and as it turns out, Jill was the first baby born in…
