Can you hear the birds sing?

On the night that Jesus was betrayed, he gave a new commandment... “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you...

My friend Joyce sent me a note about a person in her church that has a very positive outlook on life.  If you ask this person "what do ...

I am pretty sure that enculturating is not a word. I am going to use it anyway. Enculturating is the process of building the culture of you...

I was watching a TV show about people that live in old historic homes.  One of them said, "We don't actually own a home, we are jus...

It was bound to happen.  I got on the airplane and went to my seat, 20D.  There was a young man sitting in my seat. Before I could react neg...

My friend Jeff from Ocean View sent this in... "Public discussion has become angry and cruel,"  says Layton Friesen in the Evangel...

 And so I was driving home from Ocean View UMC in Juno Beach, FL and I saw this. Sometimes, we just need to take a deep breath and say ...

On July 4th my friend Mary shared this story from her family history: Mary's Parents 1946 My mother was born in Poland and in November 1...

So last week I was staying at a hotel in Galax Virginia.  It’s a real Place.  Look it up. In the morning, I go down to breakfast and employe...

If you want to watch yesterday's sermon, here is the link... click here to listen to or watch the sermon And now on to today's post....

I received this note from my friend Kathy.  Her dad had written it some years back.   "Dear Family - Call me naive or simple - but it d...

So I’ve been wondering what to write about on my birthday. Probably should pick something sort of profound and meaningful!!! I hadn’t really...

I can remember a time or two when during a sermon I would ask people where they were born.  Kansas, Oklahoma, Florida and such were usually ...

I have said this before, but it keeps coming up and bears repeating... We need to keep this in mind... Most of the time... almost all of the...

After yesterday's post, a couple of readers asked why the Lord's Prayer is taped to the wooden stand.   The answer is simple. Has yo...

After WW2 thousands of ships were "mothballed" or put away  in storage in case they were needed in the future. In 1994, Bill and M...

This is from Wm Bridges book, Managing Transitions. The life stages of an organization. Original Vision - dreams Growth and Building the Org...

In general, I believe that true kindness is never about what you get back. Our reward is the joy of giving or of doing the right thing- of s...

Read somewhere... "Spiritually developed people are those who are willing to give up their comfort and their preferences for the sake o...

Most churches face issues with ministries that have run their course.  Their lifespan is over, but there are some well meaning members that ...

Prayer - It might make me feel good. It might not. It might give me what I want. It might not. Prayer takes me from my will - to god's...

Compassion is defined as a "sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others." As followers of Jesus, we ...

I needed something the other day.  I didn't realize that I needed it, but I did. When that thing showed up, I realized that I was missin...

I find it very interesting that two bright people can have such different opinions on a thing.  I see it one way, they see it another.  They...

When someone hurts a friend, it hurts us too. This happened to me the other day.  Someone said something hateful to one of my friends.  The ...

Every now and then we come across something that we do not like.   I had this reaction about a thing that I observed... "the current tr...

Father's Day came and went.  I got a really cool Jurassic Park shirt from my daughter Jennifer. Note the raptors... I got to speak with ...

Darn.  There is a rock in my shoe.  I take the shoe off.  I cannot find it.  It is still there.  I deal with in for a bit and then I take th...

The drain was running very slow, problematically slow.  I don't want to do this.  I don't want to take it apart. I tried the plastic...

Someone made fun of me. I used a phrase that they had not heard of.  I was emailing about a joint email that we were working together on and...