There are good and bad aspects of thinking about the past. On the positive side, examining the past can give us direction for the future. We can look at our past successes and failures and apply those lessons to new situations. We can benefit from remembering the many...

  A week ago, I was throwing a load of laundry in the washer and shortly afterward I noticed my ring was missing.  It has slipped off a few times before when my hands were wet, but I usually immediately see where it went.  So I was 90 percent sure it was either...

  A week ago, we attended an AWANA fun fair with our three children following a year of working to memorize bible verses.  If you quizzed them now, they would not likely recall every verse, but would at least be familiar with most of them.  So the fair was filled...

Romans 5:7  (NKJV) For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.  As I think on what it was that God did for us through His sacrifice of His only begotten Son, I am humbled.  I'm drawn to a passage in Romans...

When you hear the phrase Holy Week, what comes to mind? You might think it is the week leading up to Easter Sunday, and you would be correct, but do you celebrate in any special way through the week?  If you are like me, you may only have heard of or attended a Good...

If we live long enough we will likely have numerous experiences with suffering. While I have never suffered anything in the ballpark of crucifixion, I have had a couple of scary moments in my life. One was in a triathlon in Chicago, with an open water swim in Lake...