It's Like Herding Cats

Wanted - People Who Follow the Rules Let me set the context for you. There's a mailing list I'm on locally, that does a great serv...

The Wait Frank and his wife were cleaning out the attic one day when he came across a ticket from the local shoe repair shop. The date sta...

  No, But I Saw His Tracks Sunday was our big VBS celebration extravaganza here, and it was something else! Picture if you will bunches of g...

Playing Marbles With Diamonds Luke 12:34 (Msg)       It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will...

Misplaced Boundaries   It was the last day of my summer job before I was off to college. Let's be kind and say I was in a frivolous moo...

The Church of Perpetual VBS   Okay, so everyone whose currently working in our VBS has just suffered a massive coronary... but those of you...

Follow The Moose Tracks I may be on a continuous effort to stay fairly slim and trim, but that doesn't mean I don't keep up with th...

And another thing... A husband and wife were at a party chatting with some friends when the subject of marriage counseling came up. "O...

The Worst Book While I was at our local library yesterday, I picked up a book filled with the worst. The idea behind it was to prepare peop...

"Know It All's" Our friendly neighborhood UPS man just brought me a present from a book publisher. Looking at the cover, I ca...

America and me America and me go way back. My first memory of real pride in being an American was our seventh grade graduation ceremony, a...

Where Would Jesus Eat? My friend and fellow preacher-creature Arnold Hendrix was back in town for his home church's 50th anniversary ce...

Who Cares? Someone once wrote that a preacher should study with the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other. I'm sure the idea...

Time Is Running Out Upon receipt of an email from a government official today, I was informed that time was running out for me. You see I g...

Pray Walking up the path to my office this morning, seeing the grounds so well kept by one member, I give thanks to God for his work, and a...

We've Found the Weapons of Mass Destruction! It would be safe I think to say that authors William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway were go...

When Scuffed Up Is Just Right When I first came to New Hope, as we pulled into the parking lot two things caught my eye and my imagination ...

Just the right place to be wrong On a morning that dawned, or rather clouded and rained, I spent some time waiting for a friend to undergo ...

You Can Learn A Lot Here As the nation pauses to remember our 40th president, Ronald Reagan, things are slow in this military town. Many ar...

Vacations and Vocations Mark 6:30-31 (Msg) The apostles then rendezvoused with Jesus and reported on all that they had done and taught...