Mourn to be Happy

Mourn to be happy We live in a culture obsessed with happiness. For most of the population, especially in the western cultures, their holy grail is happiness: The Woodstock generation was seeking love and happiness. Their path was sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Many...

The magic of: “I get to…”

My bride and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We are blessed with four grown children, seven grandchildren. God has blessed me in so many ways, I am sometimes overwhelmed. I am often asked what the secret is to a lasting, ever-strengthening marriage. We...

Community During a Pandemic

“So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to the prayers. Then fear came over everyone, and many wonders...

One of the Worst Things about the p_ _ _ _ _ _ _.

We are now more than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic. As I write this, there have been more than 368 million cases reported world-wide and 5.6 million deaths, with the actual numbers likely being much higher. Our lives have been turned upside-down: we contract...

Seeing Through Our Filters

Filter: process or assess (items) in order to reject those that are unwanted. “You’ll be put through to a secretary whose job it is to filter calls.” Whether we realize it or not, most of us constantly apply filters to our interactions as we journey...

Anatomy of a Revival

2 Chronicles 7:13-14: “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from...