This isn’t an astronomy blog, you know
Some of you may have seen my recent Facebook posts about the early morning sky. The planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mars moved into a nice conjunction just this morning, and even elusive Mercury is visible (for a few more days, as I write this) just before dawn. Venus and Jupiter, as the 3rd and 4th […]
Don’t Be Limited By A “Defining” Moment
I want to share with you one of my all-time favorite literary passages, but if I share the whole passage, it will eat up too much of my column space, so I will edit it somewhat. It’s from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The First Circle” and goes like this:
Busy, busy, busy
Pastors, as a breed, love September. Most people do, because most people are fond of autumn, but pastors love it because people are home more. The school year dictates, to a large degree, when families travel for vacations, and by the time September rolls around, most peo-ple are settling in for life that is more […]
VBS Thank You!
As I write this, we are just a couple hours away from kicking off the last night of Vacation Bible School. It has been a GREAT week of min-istry, and, as usual, a lot of fun. And, as usual, a lot of WORK. Right off the bat, I want to give a big shout-out to […]
Freedom
Freedom. As Americans, we don’t just value freedom, we practi-cally worship it. We celebrate it, we sing anthems to it, and we feel genu-ine sorrow for people who don’t have it. People write, fight, bleed, and die for it. We get nervous when it is threatened, whether by foreign or domestic enemies. The U.S. Constitution, […]