This past Wednesday, February 22, 2023 began the liturgical season of Lent. This season, following a season after Christmastide referred to as “ordinary time” will be a total of 46 days in length. However, this includes six Sundays that are…
As I enter my 71st year, I can’t help but reflect on how I have been the recipient of God’s grace so many times in my life. This thought has permeated my consciousness this past weekend and I find myself…
Today marks the twelfth anniversary of TBTB that was started on my 58th birthday. Now, on my 70th birthday, I find myself writing post #1840 – marking something more than 1.5 million words since our inception. I heard earlier today…
I am teaching through the Johannine epistles and we are currently in the book of 1 John. Talk is primarily about the command that Jesus gave us to love one another. But we have also discussed good and evil –…
I believe that we serve a very patient God – who waits to have our undivided attention when He has something to share. So… if we are busy during the day, it isn’t unusual that God will wait for the…
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…
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…
