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You may have missed the last time we had a hymn sing or have been unaware of the little drama going on in the back row. One of the church moms of a 10 year old boy was fuming mad. I didn’t catch what the infraction was, but the boy did something that got him in big trouble that morning; getting yelled at in the car all the way to church and lasting into the service. Mom was whispering a scolding to the boy even as we were calling out the hymns to sing.
The boy, one of our bright kids in church s… Continue

One way to think about it is to picture life as an immense jigsaw puzzle and as pieces are put in place, the picture makes more sense. But it takes many hands to piece it together and often a long time for even a small section of the puzzle to have some continuity and make some sense.
. One time a professor of marketing at a Christian college asked his class to color in a long strip of vinyl with a black marker, coloring in the designated areas. Each student completed their assignment but it mad… Continue

Get the John Calvin birthday clock at Calvin 500… Continue

Check out the story of the Four Chaplains this Memorial holiday. They exemplify the love that Jesus talked about in John 15:7-15; a love worth dying for. You can find their story on line at www.fourchaplains.org/story.html.

This is an unbelievable story of courage and self sacrifice by four Army chalpains in WWII, two protestant, one catholic and one Jewish, all friends and all heros.

When their troop transport was hit by a U Boat, they gave away their lifejackets so others could be saved and… Continue

I spent a few days at Union Seminary in Richmond this week with Professor Tom Long, one of the greatest preachers of our day; (don’t take my word for it) he is one of the ten best according to a 1996 survey by Baylor Un. In one of his lectures he encouraged us minor preachers not to forget to preach the Eschatological promises of God because we hear so little of that hope these days in the churches. Eschatological has to do with the end times, the culmination of history and the coming Kingdom of… Continue