Lost in Translation

We heard a great sermon in church this morning right after the lighting of the Advent candle at the start of the service. Unless I am mistaken, most people will recognize that the name of this post has to do…

I just finished teaching a short series on the writers of the four Gospels and how their differing styles and messages form a more complete look at the life, miracles and divinity of Jesus. It is presumed that Mark wrote…

Earlier this week, as I was studying some background material on the book of Mark, I went to the room that I call my library - a windowless room in the lower level that houses binders from all my classes…

Last spring, I had the pleasure of helping Kristin with her Soul Sisters church group of ladies. They were doing a devotional study and asked me to come in early each week and help to explain theological concepts and Bible…

I happened to be reading an article on the origins of the word "ruthless" and found it interesting that the word means to be "without ruth..." I never thought that there was a word "ruth" other than a proper name…

I was speaking with a friend of mine several weeks ago when I heard words that I have not heard in many years - in fact, since I was a young child in the presence of my grandmother. She used…

This week marks twenty two years since Mom died and we had her funeral prior to internment at a cemetery in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Twenty years before that, in 1978, we laid Dad to rest after a long…

I love to tell stories and one of my friends let me know that he thought this was one of my special gifts. For some reason, I seem to have a story for almost any occasion and I think I…

Earlier this year, Janet and I traveled to Florida to attend a destination wedding at DisneyWorld. Although we flew to Orlando, we decided to use paper maps to get the lay of the land and locate different places of interest…

I spent a number of years in seminary back in the first decade of this century. Janet and I felt compelled that I should go to school and, as many of you know, I attended a small conservative seminary where…