Advent: Wonderful Counselor Christmas is my absolute favorite time of year. Since most of my friends know this, they either feed my passion or tease me about it. Either way, I relish the four weeks of Advent as a time of joyful expectation as I count down the...
World Kindness Day World Kindness Day is November 13 this year. And that makes me a bit sad. Not because kindness makes me sad, but because we’ve reached the point where a day dedicated to kindness is even needed. Kindness has become the exception rather than...
Are You Rearranging the Darkness? “Spring ahead, fall back.” Repeating this phrase is the only way I can remember which way to change the clocks each spring and fall. This year, Daylight Saving Time (DST) began on March 13 and will end on November 6, 2022. In a...
Costume or Uniform? October brings a season of costumes. Choices that are inappropriate for the remaining eleven months of the year are strangely acceptable this month. People wear costumes to make a statement, entertain, or celebrate Halloween. A costume is...
National Tell the Truth Day Has telling the truth become an exception? Or is it simply entertaining? The television program, To Tell the Truth, is based on the premise that contestants can’t determine which of four panel members is lying. In the classic comedy,...
The Secret to True Success ’Tis the season of graduations…and graduation speeches. And almost every speech will encourage the graduates in their pursuit of success. A recent search for the word “success” in the Amazon books category yielded more than 60,000...
Saturday: The Day Between We know about Maundy Thursday: the day Jesus celebrated Passover and shared His last supper with His disciples. We commemorate Good Friday: a day we can call “good” because Jesus died a substitutionary death for us. And we celebrate...
How Do You Celebrate Palm Sunday? Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The crowds cheered. They spread their cloaks on the road. They also cut palm branches and placed them in His path as Jesus entered Jerusalem, riding on a donkey. Two...
Spiritual Junk Food Not sure why, but I’ve been bingeing on junk food for the past several weeks. Which is a bit ironic, considering March is National Nutrition Month. So in honor of this month, here’s a devotion excerpted from Reflections on the Names of God:...
Quotes About Real Love February is thought of as the month of love, with Valentine’s Day taking center stage. But Cupid’s arrows have little to do with true love. You and I have the capacity for deep and abiding love because God first loved us (1 John 4:19)....
To Work or Not to Work? The Labor Day holiday weekend is coming. Ironically, it’s a holiday we celebrate by...
Rights Christians Have, Don’t Have, Like, and Don’t Like The Constitution. The Bill of Rights. Documents...
Waiting for the Church’s Bridegroom June is traditionally associated with weddings. So I can’t allow the month...