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Dear Friends, This past New Year's Eve Kathy and I brought in the New Year the way we like best: with a bunch of our grandkids.  It was great fun and chaos as we ushered in the New Year with a grandkids sleepover.  At one point in the festivities I sat back and looked...

Dear Friends, Kathy and I love Xmas movies.  We actually start watching them on Thanksgiving morning.  My favorite is Polar Express.  Many Christmas movies are based on the premise that a child stopped believing in Santa because he or she didn't get what they wanted...

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DAY 15:  December 16, 2019 (15th Day of Advent)   YAHWEH YIREH (yah-WEH yir-EH) "The Lord Who Provides"   Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it...

DAY 8:  December 9, 2019            8th Day of Advent            8th and Final Night of Hanukkah   MOSHIA (MOE-shee-ah) "Savior"   "I, yes I, am the Lord, and there is no other Savior." Isaiah 43:11 (NLT)   Moshia is a name of God that is used a number of times in the...

Dear Friends,   This Sunday and continuing through Christmas day, I will be posting a short devotional each day that considers one of the names of God.   I'm calling this devotional IMMANUEL because it means "God is with us."  My prayer is that we will know the Lord...

  Dear Friends, This Thursday is my favorite holiday of the year.  It makes me excited even now thinking about Thanksgiving.  Kathy is already busy buying some of the food and supplies we will need to have a wonderful meal and a great time together.  She is the single...

THE POWER OF A THANKFUL HEART Dear Friends, In a week and a half Americans will be gathering all over our nation to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.  While we call it "Thanksgiving Day" maybe a better name would be "Turkey Day" or "Football Day."  How much of the way we...

Dear Friends, We are facing the midterm elections on Tuesday.  So many Christians are divided over party politics with neither side willing or able to see the viewpoint of the other.  I weary of American politics because I don't believe the answers to the problems we...

Dear Friends, What is the Christian response to the brokenness we see in our world today?  This past week we have seen example after example of the brokenness of our society—death, murder, suicide, hatred, disease, war, and division—all point to how something is not...

Dear Friends, I was recently talking to a friend who was dealing with grief.  When asked what resource I would suggest that would be helpful, I stopped to think.  After Donna was killed, concerned friends gave me many books.  I appreciated their kindness, and read...