Morning Briefings

I’ve been thinking--it is all so confusing, isn’t it? I spent a long weekend in Boston which I love for all of its patriotic, historic...

Acts, #27 Let me open by setting the stage with the words of God: immediately following the stoning of Stephen . . . Saul was one of the...

Acts, #26 in the series.Acts 6-7 Just imagine the pen was in your hand, having to deliver this news. Shalom aleykhem. I am sorry to bear...

~a lesson from my chickens. Acts #25 Acts 6 Nature provides me with a lot of thoughts about God--animals, in particular. I can look...

Jumping into casual conversation usually works for me, pretty much anywhere. However, most of last year when I flew across country some...

Where are we now and what do we know to be true? Reality check time. According to the calendar, we find ourselves on the eve of summer....

Why Memorial dAy? May 31, 2021. Just some musings about why I value a set-apart day called Memorial Day. It is so much more than the...

Acts, 23. Acts 5.12-42 They counted the cost and went for it anyway. The apostles knew too much about the grace of Jesus Christ and the...

more on Acts 5, Acts #22 in the series. "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard. So,...

Acts, #21 in series Acts 5.1-11 Why in the world did God strike Ananias and Sapphira, husband and wife, dead after they lied? The two...

Acts 5.1­-11 #20 in the series God is not afraid of our questions—I think he rather likes them. Sometimes I like to ask ‘Why?’...