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September 2024

September 11, 2024

Is It Time For Another Great Awakening?

“No Great Spiritual Awakening has not begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.”...

September 10, 2024

Politics. It’s Exhausting and Filled With Hope.

"God isn't asking you to figure it out. He's asking that you trust that He...

September 08, 2024

Blue Willow Life Lessons

"All great change starts at the dinner table." Ronald Reagan Today we had a big...

September 04, 2024

Three Fierce Women In The Bible A Prophet, Queen and Judge

Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to...

September 01, 2024

In A World Of Screwtape Find Your Cricket Song

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph; The only proof...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

A Podcast And A Review Of It Ends With Us

"The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.” Oscar Wilde This is...

August 18, 2024

A Sweater Is Like A Hug From The Lord

“A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put...

August 13, 2024

Can We Have Another Jesus Revolution?

"You don't need to clean up your life and come to God. You come to...

August 09, 2024

Are We Entertaining Angels Unaware?

“An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of a man by strengthening the power...

August 07, 2024

Life Kind Of Feels Like A Fever Dream Right Now

“The current fever dream has no chance against the forces of love. Love is a...

July 2024

July 26, 2024

Is It Possible To Channel The Mind Of An Olympian?

“Don’t run from a challenge. Instead run toward it because the only way to escape...

July 24, 2024

Perhaps It Is Time For A Timeline Cleanse

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is...

July 18, 2024

The Maddening Muck of Mental Purgatory And How To Dig Out

“Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memory.” Sándor Márai I’ve...

July 14, 2024

It’s Time To Step Away From The Comments Section

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is...

July 10, 2024

Have You Cleaned Out Your Spiritual Refrigerator Recently?

“Clutter is not just the stuff on your floor-it’s anything that stands between you and...

July 07, 2024

Deconstructing Theology. Is it Okay to Ask God Questions?

"When Christianity entered into the world, people were not Christians and the difficulty was to...

June 2024

June 29, 2024

How Do We Find Hope When The World Is Screaming Around Us?

"Hope is a whisper in a world that shouts. But listen for it. Listen for...

June 26, 2024

It’s Okay To Tell God I Don’t Know

"It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart."...

June 22, 2024

An Empty Nester’s Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended...

June 20, 2024

Life Has Choices. Destruction. Definition and Strength.

“When something bad happens, you have three choices. You can either let it define you,...

June 13, 2024

A Queen, Life, D-Day and John Williams. Life Goes On

“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well...

May 2024

May 24, 2024

Memorial Day and Gold Star Soldiers-A Tribute

Our flag does not fly because the wind blows it - it flies with the...

May 16, 2024

Revisiting The Old Church Cookbook And Its Life Lessons.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work...

May 13, 2024

The Marvelous Gift of Grace

“We witness other people's storms from the shelter of our own perspectives. Let’s be mindful...

May 10, 2024

A Mother Is Much Like a Casserole. It’s All In The Recipe

“Try not to be a person of success, but rather try to become a person...

May 06, 2024

Was The Woman At The Well The First Evangelist?

Jesus Traveled Where Some Dare Not Travel Picture if you will Jesus, traveling purposefully into...

May 02, 2024

Will Others Know We Are Christians By Our Love?

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

2 Funerals and a Pianist. Do We Need a Community?

The Gift of Your Six “It takes 6-8 pallbearers to lift you up when you’re...

April 24, 2024

What is the bread in your life? What’s in Your Recipe?

“Love doesn’t sit there like a stone; it has to be made like bread, remade...

April 18, 2024

Can the Beatitudes Help Me Live a Better and Beautiful Life?

If you have been a believer for a long time, you can probably say...