Special

So, yesterday we celebrated our daughter’s third birthday.  I always say to people, celebrating birthdays is not all that exciting after you hit about 24 years of age or so.  But when you are three, you get pretty excited.  So, when your daughter gets excited about...

Feeling It

Have you ever heard a couple say ‘we’ve fallen out of love’ as justification for them splitting up or getting a divorce?  Whether a Christian couple or not, maybe you think or want to say ‘well get back in love!’  What they are probably referring to is their feelings...

Looking Up

When you were a youngster growing up and going to school, who did you admire?  If anything like kids today, you may have been infatuated with some celebrity, musician, or sports star that you got to see from afar.  But what about a real person in your life that you...

Hello There!

As I drive through the back county roads of Southern Iowa, often I pass oncoming traffic and give the one or two finger ‘howdy’ or farmer wave and about half the time I get a similar response.  On rare occasions, someone waves at me first and I even got an arm in the...

Church Coffee

Do you usually get a cup of coffee before or after your Sunday church service?  Is this something unique to Sunday, or do you do this everyday?  I grew up in a Lutheran church and I recall the coffeepot sitting there every week ready to dispense bitter, steaming hot...