It amazes me how there are times when you can get away with certain sayings or ways of thinking where at other times it is met with cynical rebuttals. This time of the year it is fully acceptable to offer thanks for what you have or for persons in your life. Other times of the…
Thanksgiving is only a few short days away. Are you ready? I don’t mean the food preparation, or cleaning the house- How’s your outlook? Isn’t it so easy to focus on every little thing that goes wrong or just doesn’t live up to our expectations? If you are like me, at any given point in…
If you didn’t know, October is Pastor’s Appreciation Month. My reason for bringing this up is not so I can receive notes of thanks. Nor is it because I am vying for acknowledgment of the pastors on the pastoral staff with which I am a part. While I do think they deserve thanks for their…
There are a few days in our lives that we remember very well. Wedding days, births of children, and days that dreams come true! Another day that we will always remember is when a tragic event occurs in our lives. And when this event affects an entire nation, it links that nation together with a…
In 1789, the first United States Congress asked the first U.S. President, George Washington, to issue a proclamation for a national day of thanksgiving. The Revolutionary War was over, the colonies had obtained their independence, yet this young nation was not yet fully united. On October 3, 1789, in an attempt to unite the country,…
There are certain words that just don’t go together. Alone, they have potency and meaning, but when used in tandem, they seemingly negate each other. Like an acid and a base, left alone they each retain their independent properties, but when mixed, they neutralize each other. Now, in literature, this type of device is used…
Today is the third and final installment of our little mini-series looking at the marks of what makes up a mature believer. To recap part 1 and part 2, we’ve seen from Colossians 1:9-11 that… A mature Christian knows biblical true (1:9a) A mature Christian applies biblical truth (1:9b) A mature Christian desires to please the Lord…
“You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.” (Haggai 1:6) When I was in elementary school my mother…
My children love Sour Patch Kids. I have never really understood the passion for this sugar-infested treat. But I have witnessed large bags of Sour Patch Kids decimated in just a few moments. If you have not been so privileged to be introduced to this learned indulgence, it is an incredibly tart chewable encasing several…
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