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…
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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 –…
One of the questions that I get asked from time to time is what is the requirement to be considered a “Christian.” It turns out that if you ask most people why they think that they are going to heaven,…
Several days ago, on the morning of December 31, 2022, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed into the arms of Jesus. The Vatican has been strangely quiet on the exact nature of his final illness, but it is known that Pope…
We recently started the season of Advent – last Sunday, in fact. The season of Advent is the beginning of the new liturgical year – the time that we celebrate the upcoming birth of Jesus and His entrance into the…
Saturday, November 1, 1969 was the day that I took the SAT tests – required at that time in order to apply to most colleges. It was a Saturday and having taken the PSAT (the preliminary practice test) earlier in…
Monday is Halloween, 2022. This annual day of celebration is actually a pre-cursor to All Saints Day on November 1st. In fact, one of the names used for the events of November 1st is actually Toussaint’s Day, derived from the…
Earlier this week, Janet and I did something that we haven’t done since very early in our marriage. We fired up a charcoal grill and had an old fashioned barbecue together. We both grew up in homes where our Dads…
The last several weeks, I have written about things of the past and my memories of childhood friends. In fact, there have been several other things that have happened that have me recalling the past this weekend. After Christmas last…