It's Like Herding Cats

To Give Voice To Our Hearts I've been cranky. There, I've said it to a few hundred of my closest friends. :) It happens. Mostly ...

Feeling a bit sheepish? As I was passing through the book of John today, I came across some familiar verses of Scripture. In the tenth chap...

Who Are You Listening To? Ouch! It was one of those moments that you wished you had missed. As I entered the post office this morning, a y...

Hello friends, Today marks the three year anniversary of "A Glimpse of New Hope!" I do hope that you have enjoyed reading them as...

Arms Wide Open How could anyone resist it? We had walked the mall together, my son and I, toward the store in which my wife worked. He...

Seeing Jesus John 1:15-18 (Msg) John pointed him out and called, "This is the One! The One I told you was coming after me but in ...

Suspended Animation In the older science fiction movies, it seemed someone was always stuffed into a tube sleeping. They were voyaging acr...

Changing Directions It was really a neat sight to see all the schoolchildren lined up several deep along the fence at Valparaiso Elementary...

The Weight of the World Coming to the church today I was treated to the sight of all the kids and their families headed to the elementary s...

When One Person Cares All the pieces for a disastrous fourth grade experience were there for me. My appearance - only a Mother could love ...

It Matters, Because You Matter It was a cold December afternoon many years ago, when a group of parents stood in the lobby of a nursery sch...

Any Way You Can It's a quiet Sunday afternoon in Valparaiso. Many are taking advantage of the afternoon to practice what one preacher c...

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...