Today is the First of May. You may have even found yourself joking saying to someone: “It’s May today”. Jumble that up enough and you’ve got yourself a distress call. The international distress signal “Mayday” is always repeated three times in a row—“Mayday-Mayday-Mayday”—so the situation will be clearly understood as a life-threatening emergency. The word… Read More »

“The Day After Easter” The head of the chocolate bunny is gone, And the green plastic grass from the Easter basket Festive dress clothes lie wrinkled, For the laundry or the dry cleaner Sumptuous Easter dinner is all but forgotten Along with the Easter sermons, Chorales, dramas, sunrise services in the park Shouts and songs of… Read More »

Basketball in March — it’s really good. I was thinking yesterday about what drives us to “madness” in March. I’ll tell you the secret (hardly) … it’s because everything is on the line. From high school playoffs to the NCAA Tournament, it’s “do or die” for every team. Win and move on — lose and… Read More »

“O Lord, you examine me and know. You know when I sit down and when I get up even from far away you understand my motives. You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do. Certainly, my tongue does not frame a word… Read More »

As we begin a new year it’s important to start off on the right foot. Do you want to get back into shape? I guess going out to the buffet tonight is out of the question. Do you want to be more patient? Driving they say these days only leads to more and more stress… Read More »

Christmas is drawing closer and closer. The Christmas season is a time for celebrations! If you’re like me, the moment that Thanksgiving is done, it’s officially Christmas season (even though I know some people like to start earlier). It’s the season we’ve waited for all year and as the temperatures get cooler and the familiar carols… Read More »

Stranger Things – Everyone seems to be talking about it these days. If for some reason you’re completely out of the loop, here’s what this show’s season 2 is about: “It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon monster and the secrets of Hawkins Lab (Season 1).… Read More »

On Sunday, October 29, churches around the world will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The day commemorates Martin Luther’s posting his 95 Theses on the Castle church door in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517. At the beginning of the century, most of Europe had been without a Bible they could read for about a thousand years. Common thought was that salvation… Read More »

The sight of the back-to-school supplies section is enough to cue a combination of excitement and anxiety for kids, parents, and teachers counting down to the first day of school. Most of the school districts are now back in the swing of things whether you’ve got a kindergartner, middle-schooler, high-schooler, or college student – this… Read More »

When I was growing up, one of the things my family did over the summer was go camping. We stayed at campgrounds, spent the week together each year at Creation Festival camping out with friends from church, or I myself would go to camp for a week in the Poconos. During each of those times,… Read More »