Posts with the tag “philippians”

I read a story about some years ago St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City was seeking a new president. Over one hundred candidates applied for the position. The search committee narrowed the list...  Read More

I just got back from vacation. We had booked our place for the family back about December of last year. We watched month after month pass by with increasing anticipation for having the family together...  Read More

I recently heard that in the United States of America, you have a right to remain silent. But few people have the ability. How often have you said something and immediately knew that you should have j...  Read More

I can remember my Dad telling me stories of some of the experiences he had as an infantryman during WWII in Italy. He told of a day when they were moving across an open area that had been a vineyard a...  Read More

John Wooden was the legendary basketball coach at UCLA. I remember going into Pauley Pavilion where their home games were played and seeing one national championship banner after another hanging from ...  Read More

Paul’s letter to the Philippians is often referred to as the letter of joy. In it he uses the word rejoice a half dozen times and then the word joy even more. He writes with joy and is rejoicing as h...  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

Easter week is over. We ended with Good Friday and the Greatest Sunday Ever! Jesus is alive…but what does that mean for your life today? We need to remember that the same power that raised Jesus from ...  Read More

Today is Good Friday. It is the day that Jesus was taken outside the city of Jerusalem and crucified on a cross for the sins of the world. I thought about that cross today. We see crosses all around u...  Read More

It was 1960 and I was just a young kid, but I remember my dad taking me down to the train station in our small town one morning to see something special. We got about a half a block from the station a...  Read More

At our AWANA meeting last night we had what we call Council Time, which is just a little Biblical talk to end our time together. One of our leaders was speaking and he told the kids that as we go thro...  Read More

A buddy of mine and I went to an antique store the other day to look for stuff for electric trains. He and I have trains and enjoy running them and letting kids get to share in the fun of seeing them ...  Read More