Browse the blog posts going back to 2014 – and we also have a Watchwords archive.
- Disappointment? (4/1/2015) - Phillip Yancey, in his book Disappointment with God, raises these three questions: Is God Unfair? Is God Silent? Is God Hidden? In our walk as people of faith, circumstances often present themselves and cause us to complain — Why me, God? Why have you done this? Why are you allowing... Continue reading
- One Flock? (3/26/2015) - For more than 45 years, since I committed my life to Christ, I have struggled with the question of One God. Not as it applies to Christianity, on that I am clear. But One God for Christians and Jews, and Muslims? Same God? Yes? No? If you believe in one God,... Continue reading
- Storytelling (1/20/2015) - Are you a storyteller? A good friend of mine has been a storyteller all his life, and he has used that talent to communicate humor and interesting ideas, all with a moral. He has for many years, journeyed, on a weekly basis, 40 miles to the children’s cancer ward of the... Continue reading
- 12:01 a.m. 1/1/15 (12/31/2014) - Times Square. Packed with crazy, happy people, just waiting for that ball to drop — the moment 2014 turns into 2015. A transition from one year that held both successes and failures, into a new year filled with hopes, promises and expectations. Over your life span, where were you at that point... Continue reading
- Faith Thoughts: 103 (12/29/2014) - (Post 3 of 3) Faith and the “real” world. How does that work? A few years ago, two of the Men’s Bible Study groups that I am apart of were looking at Islam. In one I was confronted with a sense of fear, a fear that for all intent and purpose has... Continue reading
- Faith Thoughts: 102 (12/21/2014) - (Post 2 of 3) What about the Resurrection? Christianity without the Resurrection? I don’t believe so. Simply put, in my mind, without the Resurrection there is no Christianity! My wife and I came to believe that, during those early years which we refer to as the real beginning of our Christian walk. If we could... Continue reading
- Faith Thoughts: 101 (12/15/2014) - (Post 1 of 3) Some years ago I set out to write a “brief” statement of my faith that I could share with my children. At that time they were adults in their 30’s and who, probably, had a fairly well-formed idea of “religion”, faith and all that “stuff”. That... Continue reading
- My Mother (11/21/2014) - My last recollection of Mother was when the three of us were visiting my sisters in Colorado. Dad and I had gone for a long walk and he told me that Mother was worried about cancer. She had some tests before they left for Colorado and was awaiting the results. There had been... Continue reading
- A Perfect Gift (11/17/2014) - We are well into the holiday season and Christmas is just a few weeks away. I have been giving that a lot of thought, recalling those Christmas morning as a child and all the wonder and excitement. Then I flash to mornings with my own children and relive those memories.... Continue reading
- Taking Inventory (10/13/2014) - I never got around to making a Bucket List. I guess I was just too busy living to take the time. What I do have are those things, events, accomplishments, etc. that I actually did that might have appeared on my Bucket List, had I taken the time earlier to do that.... Continue reading
- Life Interrupted (10/7/2014) - Passing by on the other side. How many of us have done that over the years? Maybe not as dramatically as the parable that Jesus tells, but nevertheless real. Passing by on the other side is an easy way out. It is similar to saying I haven’t got time to... Continue reading
- The “C” Word! (8/31/2014) - I never expected to hear the word cancer, especially when there had not been cancer as far back in the family tree as we could remember. As I sat there, denial washed over me and I thought: Mistake! Can’t be! Yet, there it was. My wife and I had watched as the thoracic surgeon played... Continue reading
