It's Like Herding Cats

Temporarily Imagine if you will (if you can remember Rod Sterling's voice at the opening of the Twilight Zone.. you're old... but t...

Standing Out Do you have a "life verse"? Maybe some explanation is in order. A "Life verse" would be that snippet of Sc...

Living Among the Immortals There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--...

What Drives You? We're three days into our 40 Days of Purpose here at New Hope, and today's selection in "The Purpose Driven L...

Absence and the Heart Psalm 34:18 (Msg) If your heart is broken, you'll find God right there; if you're kicked in the gut, H...

Certainties We're preparing for our study of the Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren for the next 40 days here at New Hope, and in my re...

Knowing and Loving Carol Stoy came by my office yesterday with a watering can in one hand and a flower flat in the other. Carol is a lover ...

A Handful of Feathers and a Heartful of Hope 1 Follow God's example in everything you do, because you are His dear children. 2 Live a l...

To Kill A Mockingbird Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 (NIV) Today when I came to...

The Journey We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. Prov 16:9 (NLT) A young boy headed out to tryouts for his school pl...

Bring Your Crash Helmet ! I can remember bits and pieces of childhood. Great times with family, different toys that I loved, pets I grew up...

I Want To How many prayers? How many times had he begged God to heal him? Add to that the prayers of his family and friends who saw a man l...

The Plane! The Plane! Well, it finally happened. After almost five years of preaching in a church with a side wall of glass, underneath the...

When the Cheering Stopped We are on the cusp of a very special week as I write this. Sunday will begin Holy Week in Christian churches all ...

Aim High Well, all work here came to a stop for a few minutes today as the USAF aerial demonstration team - the Thunderbirds - did their pr...

Can You See Past It? Karen Watson was after more. As a pre-Christian, she lived her life in search of the next thrill - out of her passion ...

The Words Change - The Story Never Does Today the phrase "cutting red tape" implies that a person is blasting through needless reg...

In No Time Last week I was given a daisy in a basket by the group of littlest Girl Scouts that meet here at New Hope. They are called ...

The Way Home We had company at our house last week. Completely unexpected, though not unwelcome. As Sean was headed out the door to go to s...

Extras Our highest assurance of the goodness of God rests in the flowers. All other things - our powers, our desires,our food - are necessa...