Posts with the tag “daily”

Have you ever been a foreigner? My great-grandparents were immigrants who came through Ellis Island at the end of the 19th century. I got to go to Ellis Island, in New York, and I thought about them s...  Read More

I’m doing a memorial service for a friend of mine who I had not really seen for nearly a quarter of a century. She and her husband moved to Alaska to be with family, and I figured to have one more adv...  Read More

Today is my wife’s birthday. She is 70 as of today. Now I’m older than her but as her birthday approached, I told her that I was wondering what it was going to be like to be married to someone who is ...  Read More

I was reading an article where the author reminded us that one hundred years ago, the best-selling book in our country was a book on phrenology. It said one could discover his or her personality stren...  Read More

It is Mother’s Day and a great day to celebrate Moms. I think about the impact that my mom had on me and my brother and sister. And then how our grandmothers influenced our lives as well. The three of...  Read More

I grew up as a San Francisco Giants baseball fan. I can remember my dad and me watching games on our black and white television. It was exciting to see Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, the Alou brothers a...  Read More

Have you ever had a time when you thought, “Come on God…why are you allowing this to happen? Give me a break!” I have, but then I remember a story that the author Corrie ten Boom used to tell about he...  Read More

I was a Cub Scout and I wanted to enter the Pinewood Derby race. To enter the Pinewood Derby, you got one of the official kits that had a block of wood roughly in the shape of a car. The kit included ...  Read More

I remember my dad telling me a story about his mom, my grandmother. She was a single mother, raising a son in the middle of the depression and life was tough for them. They finally got an apartment of...  Read More

There was a guy I knew who was a follower of this Jesus of the Bible. He was telling me of a group that met in his area that was known for doing some pretty evil things. He knew where they gathered, a...  Read More

Betty and Judy escaped custody yesterday. They just walked out the front gate and no one stopped them. They were apprehended when they stopped to get some grass, something they hadn’t been able to hav...  Read More

Some of our folks ran a yard sale for the church yesterday. Our neighborhood sets aside a day when everyone who can is encouraged to put stuff out for their own yard sale. The advantage to that is tha...  Read More

It was nearly 50 years ago this May 25th that we all were taken back a long time ago to a galaxy far, far away. It was nicknamed a space cowboy film, and it changed movies forever and we lined up to w...  Read More

Corrie ten Boom was a part of the Dutch resistance and help to rescue some 800 Jews from the Nazi holocaust. Their family was eventually betrayed and she and her sister and her father were imprisoned ...  Read More

I love the old story of the Mom and Dad who dropped their young son off in Sunday School and then headed off to the worship service. When they were done, they retrieved their son and got in the car fo...  Read More

Years ago I was in a dorm room and I saw a poster on the wall that intrigued me. It simply had a brick that was gold and next to it was a brick that was all grey. There was nothing else there and so I...  Read More

I looked at some of my unfinished model airplanes and I decided that I was just going to sit down and work on them for a while. I had stopped because I got to a point where I was going to have to do s...  Read More

Respect. That’s a word that has taken a beating in these times. There was a time when people in general were pretty respectful of others. But today everybody is pretty much fair game for anything. And...  Read More

We have lights outside of our house that go on at dusk each night. Years ago, we had someone break into a car we had in the driveway and some of the neighbors had things taken out of their garages whe...  Read More

I had the opportunity to travel to Europe years ago. We rented a car and traveled for three weeks. One day we stopped at an out of the way set of buildings in Belgium called Fort Breendonk. It had bee...  Read More

I remember when I was a kid, the pastor came by our house to check on something with my dad. He was busy and so I sat on the couch with our minister and just talked. I think he was just making convers...  Read More

He was just a kid when he went to war. It was a history-changing day. He became a military man and then eventually became king over his country. He honored God and then found ways to dishonor him. He ...  Read More

I’m still stinging over the 49ers loss in the Super Bowl. Yeah, I know…just get over it. But it wasn’t until the last seconds of overtime that we knew who would win. We’ve had basketball playoffs to d...  Read More

I read recently that according to a Gallup poll, 21 percent of Americans say that they go to a religious service each week. And 41 percent say they attend at least monthly. Not exactly numbers to set ...  Read More

Corrie Ten Boom and her family were committed Christians who hid Dutch Jews in their house in Haarlem, Holland during World War II. They saved a number of individuals and families until they were betr...  Read More

I went to an air museum yesterday with some friends from church and had a great time. The museum is almost all outdoors and has a great collection of aircraft that have been preserved and some restore...  Read More

One of the verses that I have both heard and used often is Romans 8:28. It goes like this: “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called ac...  Read More

You woke up today…but what if you knew that you wouldn’t wake up tomorrow? How would you spend your day? What would you do? We get so used to just living each day that we lose touch with how precious ...  Read More

I went out to get something out of my car after dark and just as I stood up, I hear…a peacock! Someone in our neighborhood owns a peacock!! When I was a kid, my folks would take me to the zoo and one ...  Read More

How often do we say things that we shouldn’t? I bet all of us right now can think of all kinds of situations where it would have been better if we had just been silent. Our words have great power to h...  Read More

People who are at the top of some skill set are people who live on repetition. I always think of NFL football players, many of them have had 10 years of organized football before they join a professio...  Read More

I had kind of a wake-up call as to how good and faithful God has been…to me! We had a baby dedication at our church on Sunday. It was for the son of one of our young couples I regularly work with. The...  Read More

I remember my dad telling me a story that took place many years ago now. He had a best friend that he went to elementary school with and played with pretty much every day. His friend’s parents had not...  Read More

A week ago, we got hail and then snow all over our yards. The road was filled with slush, and we decided that it wasn’t wise to go driving around in this icy mess. And it was in the first week of Apri...  Read More

There is a great story about a lady who came to her priest and told him that Jesus had appeared to her and spoken with her. The priest was patient but was obviously skeptical. When the lady was finish...  Read More

Have you heard the saying… “They talk the talk…but they don’t walk the walk”? We can agree with the whole Bible and even share it with others. But people need to see us live what we claim we believe. ...  Read More

Has anyone ever made a promise to you? Of course they have! From the government to Amazon to people we trust…we get promises from them. And we make promises too! And the problem is that those around u...  Read More

There were five of them that came into our backyard. Each one wore a mask, and they were so quiet that we would not have known they had been there if not for the way they vandalized our property. They...  Read More

Today, some parts of the United States will experience a total solar eclipse. And this will be the last one for another 20 years. It will be a narrow path where the total eclipse will actually be seen...  Read More

As I go through my day, I might feel older, but I think I look younger! When I get up in the morning and look in the mirror, I kind of sigh and realize that I’ve got significant years and mileage on m...  Read More