We Went Church Shopping Yesterday

Family was here. They like to attend church. So we went online to shop for a church. Just a one-day deal. We’d heard of a church that some friends of the family attended, so we tried to remember the name of it. We thought we’d found it. Service at 10:30. Perfect. Big church. Good music. […]

Still Burning!

I wrote the following four years ago while still pastoring. I was still a year away from hearing “pancreatic cancer” pronounced over the love of my life. Retirement wasn’t even in my vocabulary. I thought I could possibly take a wonderful group of people I loved into an untracked era. It was not to be. […]

New Training for New Terrain

Our children are very different from my wife and I and dissimilar from each other as well. This was apparent from the day each of them was born. It was clear that even though there were familial similarities, they each had distinctive design. It was never our goal to somehow end up with clones of […]