Tenting
Having been buried with Christ in our baptism and raised to live a new life with him, along with each morning dawning with new hope we have the sure and certain promise of a new body placed into a new creation. This promise is so good.
Overtime
If you enjoy a good basketball game, I hope you were watching your TV earlier this week. Or better yet, perhaps you were at Little Caeser’s Arena on Monday or Tuesday night. Different teams … different levels … but very similar overtime wins for the…
Stormy Weather
Jesus was sound asleep in the boat … so filled with confidence in his Heavenly Father’s protection that the storm did not even wake him. He certainly possessed that peace that surpasses all human understanding. And, when wakened by his distraught…
Bitter-Sweet
If one’s hope is found only in humans and/or human institutions (including the visible church), one’s life will always be filled with the bitterness of disappointment and death. This is a simple, yet difficult fact. It is the result of fallen people…
Do You Believe This?
It seems like the weeks that I have things to write about I find it difficult to find the time to write. And the weeks that I have time to write, nothing worthwhile comes to my mind. This is one of those weeks. However, since I missed sending out…
Christ be My Leader
With all of the dangerous hero worship – and hero denigration – going on these days, I thought it might be worthwhile to use a Thursday’s Thirst to meditate upon the One Christians are called to follow and emulate. His name is Jesus. Neither a…
Failure after Failure
When I was growing up, my parents wanted me to be an engineer or an accountant. I wanted to be a teacher. They even had me meet with the superintendent of our school district for him to discourage me, however his line that I remember is, “Yes, there…
SMACK Between the Eyes
The time was 8:15 a.m. and my cell screen said the call was from our granddaughters’ school. As I answered the call, the voice on the other end said, “Pastor, we just wanted to be sure that you are all right.” “Yes,” I said, “and I will be there for…
The Good Shepherd
Wow – did this week ever get away from me! First I never got around to sending out Monday’s Memory and then I forgot all about today’s epistle until Monica reminded me. While I can say that life had some surprises that made a busy week even busier,…
Boutique Experience
I have spent the past two nights in a “Boutique Hoel” in Ann Arbor. I had to look up the word to see what I should expect. AI tells me “it is a French word for a small, fashionable shop selling high-end or specialized goods, often with an air of…