Monthly Archives: February 2018

What’s inside is outside… As a society, too often we “pull the trigger” on a conclusion when we see people act. Maybe that is a good thing; maybe it is not. For the past two weeks, many people in our … Continue reading →

Lots of us pay attention to words. We have to use them to convey thoughts from our minds to the minds of others. As someone who has studied words, I tend to pay attention to words that come and words … Continue reading →

I love my adult Sunday school class. It is a collection of people with all kinds of backgrounds, orientations if you will. I have a twenty-year-old and the age goes up from there [maybe to mid seventies, no one is … Continue reading →

We all have them. “Alarms” that tell us what to say and how to behave when we find ourselves surrounded by people we do not know. Here is what we want. We want to be around people who are accepting … Continue reading →

In 2006, I saw a popular movie starring Matthew McConaughey entitled “Failure to Launch.” McConaughey played a thirty-something young man who still lived at home with his parents and he had absolutely no interest in leaving their home. The premise … Continue reading →

It is hard to admit this but I waste water. Do you? When I brush my teeth at night, I run the water needlessly. When I shower, I spend extra time in there and sometimes I use our Jacuzzi tub … Continue reading →

In this past month when we were experiencing a pretty extreme “cold snap” for the state of Kentucky, the heat on the ground floor of our home went out. We called for service but since we still had heat on … Continue reading →

I thought it was going to be a normal day. First- grader David caught the bus at his country home [eleven miles from the county seat of Marion, Ky.] The bus took me approximately fifteen miles to a little school … Continue reading →

When [Jesus} came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. … Continue reading →

At the funeral service of John Carter Allen* the pastor read a testimony from a father in our church. I remember what she read. This father’s son had spent some time with John Allen at Micah Mission Center and the … Continue reading →