So, I’ll be the first to admit it…this is a creepy scripture. It’s talking about failed efforts, greed, wealth and riches, poverty and using people. It’s talking about the afterlife, […]
Readers, like me, often have favorite writers. One of mine is a woman named Kate Atkinson. I’ve read several of Atkinson’s books and I always find I have to do […]
Church communities are unique in that, a phrase like “A place for everything and everything in its place” will assume biblical stature. I found that out a number of years […]
I wonder how many of us have met a bent over woman? If we shared our stories, we might discover that those afflicted with sloped shoulders and an aging spine […]
This is one of those passages in the New Testament, which gives one pause; here is a Christ we can truly identify with, someone whose humanity seems to overshadow his […]
We all have someone in our lives that taught us what it means to have “faith.” For me, it was my grandmother. Whenever we stayed overnight at her house on […]
Back, a number of years ago, I met a honest-to-goodness hoarder. Nothing was ever tossed out and everything, significant or not, was kept for the proverbial “rainy day.” I couldn’t […]
Too many years ago to matter much, in the early days of a novice’s ministry, I was taught how to pray. It’s embarrassing to admit I needed instruction having faithfully […]
I never know what to do with my airline reward points. It seems I never have enough to actually use them to book a flight. And the restrictions placed on […]