We traveled to the mountains this past weekend and visited with our son and daughter-in-law, Zachary and Anna. What a blessing to be with them and enjoy family fellowship! Saturday we drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway, which was foggy and rainy! There were very strong winds at about 5,500 Read more…
Many of you saw in the paper that a teacher from my school was killed in a four-wheeler accident. Early 50’s, active, loved fishing and camping, and played the guitar and sang. He went for a ride in the woods behind his house and apparently hit a tree. Amazing that Read more…
Verse: Luke 15:31-32 31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’” Devotional Thoughts: I understand why some movies, especially big-named movies, Read more…
Many thanks to so many of you for your gracious reception this Sunday evening! Thank you as well for your many expressions of love. It is a blessing to serve among a congregation which loves the Lord and shows love to their church staff. We have the Fall Festival taking Read more…
I was driving the van the other day using the cruise control. I passed a sign showing a change in the speed limit, so I pushed the button on the steering wheel. The van kept right on moving. I pushed the button again, but the van kept right on moving! Read more…
Verse: Romans 8:31-32 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Devotional Thoughts: I love to Read more…
A wonderful thing to honor Dalee and Bret on their twenty-fifth anniversary! Congratulations to you both. Good as well to see so many of their family and friends come out to honor them on this good day! May you have 25 or 50 more wonderful years together! Thank you, Church, Read more…
Please allow me to take a point of personal privilege (one of the few items of parliamentary procedure I know or have heard of. At least, I think it is!) I want to say a huge Thank You to Bretney, Dory, and my Mom (and Dad, too!) for planning and Read more…
Verse: Matthew 22:37-40 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law Read more…
Our nation’s political scenery is very polarized. I have not lived in a time in which everyone agreed on the all the important issues facing society or even the world. However, civility used to be an expected feature of political debate. Today, our expectations from our politicians are pretty low. Read more…