The decision of where to send our school-aged children this fall is going to be so very, very hard. Please don’t breeze over your decision, even if, as a parent or guardian, you’ve already made up your mind as to how—and where—your student/s will start this academic school year....

    In a flash, there it was. Her hand. Out there for me to shake. Um, I thought, now what? She raised a shoulder with what we can now call the social distancing shrug. This was followed with her half question/half mumble of whether or not I was okay...

  Rebekah, an expectant wife, experiences what scripture calls a struggle. As challenging as it is to believe to those new to the story, the twins in her womb are in battle with each other. This war in the womb is so bad she goes to the Lord and asks...

Maybe you’ve heard from a Henny Penny or two. From a theological perspective, they are sharing the end of time is near. It is important to remind ourselves that apocalyptic literature has been with us long before the Bible gifted humanity, and, in these particularly challenging times, we should know...

Dear Class of 2020 You, dear graduates, certainly have Romans 12:2 as your truth statement. The first part of the verse reads, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world…” Your last months of school and your graduation itself have certainly made you, the class of 2020, nonconformists. No...

    Politicalizing has been heating up what has been referred to as the reopening of church. The left says one thing, the right the other. This war exhausts me. It should exhaust you, too, because to those dead to self and alive in Christ one fact is poignantly clear:...

  The racial tensions that continue to harness hatred, division and tension in our nation now still cripple Christians across the color spectrum. Yet there is not just hope, there is an application we can all use—scripture. The lectionary epistle reading for Sunday, June 7th, is 2 Corinthians 13:11-13. In...

  We are not finished with Memorial Day, and we never will be. I get the late May three-day weekend thrills. Ooo-eee. I hope you enjoyed some normalcy this year in that you could relax with what you have. As we move into June and the rest of the year,...

Even though the county will officially move to yellow this week, you may be one of the angry people out there. After all, some lament, our rights have been taken away for too long! The argument goes that the government shouldn’t decide when this shelter in place bit should end...

Too many people know too much these days. Turn around and you’ll find an expert on almost everything. Turn around again and you’ll find two more experts on the same subject, and yes, they both disagree with the first expert—and each other. This is certainly true in the COVID-19 world...