Hey Mister – A Christmas Tale
They say the process is unique. A machine, directed by a computer, changes molds on the fly so that each Snow Crystal Baby is one in a million. Random heads…
The Gift of Relationship
How many Hallmark Christmas movies must one watch before it feels like Christmas? Or how many Christmas songs must one hear? How many presents must one buy for the Spirit…
Gifts from God – A Meaningful Life
The drama and meaning of Christmas will always grab our attention. Its story will be retold many times between now and Christmas day. What I want to focus on in…
Building UP
There are parts of the Bible we tend to leap over. The lengthy geologies scattered throughout the text, for instance. There are also sections that no longer seem to apply.…
Love is Always the Right Answer
Everything dies. Entropy, the movement from order to disorder, is the nature of the universe. That’s a rather dark way of starting an article about agape love. But in 1…
Love Keeps Going
By Ben Hoerr – Over these last few weeks, we’ve been looking closely at what “Love is . . .” according to one definition found in 1 Corinthians 13. Today…
Love Hopes
Hope is a tricky thing. Sometimes hope is what keeps us going like a glimmer of light at the end of a long tunnel. But hope can also blind us…
Love Believes All Things
My wife, Betty, knows not to believe everything I say. It’s not because I lie or try to deceive her, but I do tend to joke and play with words.…
Love Endures All
We are all different. I know that is a shock to some of you. Each one is us is a unique, never to be repeated, complex stew of many factors.…
Rewind: Callie’s Story
From 2019 We’ve recently adopted an abandoned cat. Someone dumped her, and we suspect a sister or two in our neighborhood. Truly feral cats will have nothing to do with…
Love Rejoices in the Truth
We live in a world where truth is often a squishy matter of opinion more than a structure built on a solid foundation. Most of this is simply semantics. Truth…
Love Doesn’t Rejoice When Others are Bad
Our next “Love is” statement from 1 Corinthians 13 is a bit of a puzzler. Paul wrote, (Love) “does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;” (1 Corinthians…