January 16, 2025 - In case you haven’t noticed, we are living in a world which is in a hurry. Sometime when you are in Wal-Mart or the Mall, observe how rushed and impatient people seem to be. Notice the furrowed brows, the faces lined with worry and anxiety, the haggard and hurried look. More than anything, notice the tenseness of the people around you. There often seems to be a tension on the verge of hysterics in the very atmosphere. The tempo of our lives has never been faster and the pressure of life has never been more intense than it is now.

December 19, 2024 - There is a sad and tragic statement in the Gospel According to Luke in regard to the coming of our Savior into this world. Dr. Luke tells us that when Jesus came into the world he was “wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”

(Note: I wish I could claim originality for this, but I found it in a file in my office, I have had it for many years and it contains some valuable food for thought.)

November 14, 2024 - During the middle part of the 20th century, one of the most popular religious writers was Norman Vincent Peale.

November 1, 2024 - I once read where someone said the most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap over a chasm in two jumps. That ranks right up there with the story of the young boy who cut his puppy’s tail off an inch at the time so it wouldn’t hurt so badly by cutting the entire tail off all at once.