When do you feel most alive?  After a near miss accident?  When home for Christmas or on vacation with your loved ones?  When you take in a small glimpse of the beauty of God’s creation?  When you lose someone you deeply love?  Sometimes it takes a major life event to...

I grew up in empty religion.  I am not blaming it on my church or my family, it was probably just me.  I knew how to talk the talk, pretend in the religious behavior, and in the public light act really righteous.  Performance was my middle name... Sunday school,...

Christmas at my house has a shelf life of about two days. Christmas day is full of excitement, as our young children are often out of bed and bubbling over with excitement around 4:30am (new rule: no waking up mom and dad before 6am, or there will be no presents!)....

Luke 17:15New Living Translation (NLT) 15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!” After the carols are sung and eggnog consumed, Americans will hit the roads to return unwanted gifts. We will return as much as $284...

Luke 2:14New Living Translation (NLT) 14 “Glory to God in highest heaven,     and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.” Christmas made it! It is here! Tonight is Christmas Eve. Stories will be read, scripture quoted, and songs sung. Generally most of us...

Genesis 1:26,27 (NKJV) Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness"...So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. From before your conception, to the beginning of human history,...

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.  The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are...