Category: All About Life

  • The Dream, The Inaguration, and Abraham

    OK, so I know that everywhere you turned today, the media was talking about connections between the “I have a dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr., and the inaguration of President Obama.  So my writing a blog on this tonight is not going to be this ground-breaking revelation.  I was watching one of the…

  • Jonathan Edwards Resolutions

    At midnight on January 1, someone shot fireworks right over my house!  Usually, this would be a welcome way to ring in the New Year, but this year it got my dog Sadie barking, and the commotion woke Mary, one of my five day old daughters.  The reminder that the New Year is upon us…

  • Cheering for the Other Side – A beautiful picture of the mission of God

    I came across this article today, and thought it was incredible.  I was amazed on several different levels.  First, I was amazed to see a group of people l iving the Mission of God in such an incredible way!  This story is amazing and should challenge all of us to find ways to demonstrate the…

  • Merry Christmas – May you find the joy of Ebenezer!

    Since we have been doing a series on the story of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, I thought I’d send out a post wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and encouraging you to find the joy of Scrooge.  Here are the last two paragraphs in Dickens’ book. Scrooge was better than his word.  He did…

  • Treasuring Traditions at Christmas

    This is from an article that I wrote for the Member’s Newsletter last Christmas.  I decided to post it on the blog to encourage families as the Christmas season begins this year. OK, let’s be honest. We tend to be a pretty non-traditional church, so writing an article on traditions at Christmas may seem a…