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Eternal Winter or Eternal Hope?
I am sitting looking out my office window and it is snowing hard. Today is April 22 and we are receiving 3 to 7 inches of snow. We have had it. We need warm weather and we need the sun. This is not a superficial want, it is a full blown need and if we [...]
We Won!
screamed the crowd as the time clock ran down to zero. What an incredible run for the girls and boys basketball teams of Upsala High School. Both teams have traveled to State this March. This could become a tradition! How exciting it has been for the whole community to be there to cheer them on. [...]
The Lenten season is a life changing time of the year for me. It draws me to the pivotal event of our faith. It’s that bittersweet time that I walk step by step with Jesus to the cross. Bittersweet because even though I know his death brings me forgiveness and eternal salvation, the visual images [...]
Fully Devoted
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they [...]
Celebrate Jesus!
10 . . 9 . . 8 . . 7. . 6 . . 5 . . 4 . . 3 . . 2 . . 1 Happy New Year! is shouted around the world. People from the smallest village in Asia to Times Square in New York City are saying, “Hello” to a brand [...]
Thanks Dad
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree [...]
A Day for Thanksgiving
Have you ever had to sing a song when your heart wasn’t in it? Most remember a day when you were suppose to sing: “This is the day, (this is the day) that the Lord has made (that the Lord has made). We will rejoice, (we will rejoice) and be glad in it, (and be [...]
Seek The Lord
Remember that great game you used to play as a kid. It’s pitch black outside, no moon, no lights, no nothing. Mike is it, his head is down as he counts quickly to 200. When he finally gets there, sometimes counting by fives, he yells, “Here I come ready or not.” Off he goes searching [...]
Runners take your mark, Get set, Bang!
So began each of the races that Usain Bolt won. He peaked a great interest in me and half the world because of his ability to run like the wind. I have an even greater interest because last time we were in Kingston at Jamaica Christian Boys Home we drove by his training field. I [...]
Time to Soar
Let me introduce you to Volta. Volta is a bald eagle that lives at the Alaskan Rapture Center in Sitka, Alaska. This center helps injured birds get back to the wild. Volta, however, is a permanent resident. Volta had a life changing accident. He flew into a power line in 1992 and suffered a concussion, [...]