Is it really fair for our pastor to use his sermons to smack me “up side the head”? Our pastor, Mike Glenn, does that much too often. Couldn’t he have just glossed over the fasting part of Matthew 6:7-18…
Forgive me while I brag a little. Our granddaughter, Emma Elizabeth Price, is a softball player. A very good softball player. She is now a sophomore pitcher for her high school, Christ Presbyterian Academy. Emma was the high school team’s starting pitcher as an eighth grader and as a Freshman. Both seasons, she made the All District Team…
It’s now into the second week of our activity reduction due to the Coronavirus that is spreading rapidly. Diane and I are semi self quarantined in our home. Our schedules have been emptied primarily due to the cancellations of sporting events that we anticipated would take up so much of our time this spring. Emma’s softball…
You will probably find it strange that I mark the time I first read about baloney sandwiches as the beginning of my true spiritual journey. Yes, I was raised in a Christian home with strong influences of my grandparents and my mother around me. I was baptized before I think I really knew what I was doing. I had been…
There are a lot of things that we have…things that are entrusted to us and our care, that we cannot keep forever. Things that are difficult to give up when the time comes. Sometimes the giving up is all at once; sometimes it comes in stages. No giving up is more difficult than letting go of relationships…