The new year has come, and this is the time for making goals for the coming year. Actually, this happens more often than at the beginning of the new year. Goals tend to be made at the beginning of the summer, at the beginning of the fall and also at…
Snow has fallen and has covered the ground. Christmas is on the way. What is it about this season that is so magical? Why does it touch my heart even now as an adult? My mother’s favorite holiday is Christmas, and as a child, she filled my life with Christmas…
It’s a beautiful fall day in Minnesota. Cloudy and overcast autumn days sometimes make the colors pop even more. My oldest daughter, being home schooled this year, is working on her math. I am trying to tune my guitar. The key word in that sentence is trying because it’s not…
We all know Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Daniel, Elijah, King David, Paul, Simon Peter. The list continues of people we want to meet in Heaven. Some people in the Bible are mentioned only once, and we never hear about them again. Some of them don’t even have a name…
This summer was a sad one for the U.S., for the world. It wasn’t more than a couple of months ago and I feel like we’ve already forgotten all about it. A shooting, another car bombing, another terroristic event in our nation and on another continent. Alton Sterling, Philando Castile,…
I love to read, and lately, I have been taking that to the extreme. I have piles of books on the table, stacks of books by the bed, a couple of books I’m reading to the kids. And it doesn’t stop there. I have a bin of books I just…
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and…
Though this is based on a story in the book of Judges, it is fiction. What I found in my study of this Biblical account in history made me want to imagine what it might actually look like. This is the image that came to my mind. There was a…
It is tax season. It’s the time to pull out our W-2s and our 1099s, to gather our interest reports and our charitable donation documents. We sit down with our tax software or our accountant and hope that we gave enough away to help off-set the taxes we owe. Why…
With His back against the wall, He sat watching the crowd deposit their coins at the temple. In the midst of the hubbub and commotion of people hawking their wares and scurrying along the street, Jesus was watching the treasury with precision focus. Weary of the wealthy’s loud and…
