As most of you know by now at last night’s Academy Awards the presenters announced that the wrong film had won best picture. Unfortunately they didn’t catch the error until the cast and producers of that “wrong” film were on stage celebrating. They then took the award from one film and gave it to...
02/27/2017 20:20
Read more
This Sunday we will study how to persevere through the storms of life. In his book You Gotta Keep Dancing, Tim Hansel wrote this about the subject.
“Most of the Psalms were born in difficulty. Most of the Epistles were written in prisons. Most of the greatest thoughts of the greatest...
02/20/2017 19:04
Read more
Sunday many of you saw an announcement of the March 19th Egg Hunt Outreach. In today’s Communique I want to help you understand what we’re doing and how you can help. We have chosen March 19th because the next day is the first day of Spring which is more fittingly associated with...
02/13/2017 18:50
Read more
A few months ago I heard about a revolutionary new concept called vicarious dieting. It goes something like this: you watch what you eat and exercise faithfully and I lose weight. That sounds good to me, if only it were possible. The word vicarious refers to something that one person does for...
02/07/2017 19:20
Read more
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt stands as a monument to the pride of one man: the Pharaoh Cheops. He wanted to be remembered and I don’t think there are any vanity projects that top his. To say that it’s enormous would be an understatement. The base of the pyramid covers 13 acres. It is...
01/30/2017 20:55
Read more
Every year the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chooses a word of the year. In 2016 that word was “surreal.” They chose “surreal” because it was looked up significantly more frequently in 2016 than in previous years, and because there were multiple occasions on which “surreal” was the one word...
01/23/2017 20:48
Read more
Today is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It is a time to remember his role in the struggle for civil rights in America. This past year has been a difficult one for racial relations in America. The bruising political campaign of last year seems to have divided us as a nation even more deeply...
01/16/2017 20:53
Read more
In 1961 British theologian J.B. Phillips wrote a small book with an intriguing title: Your God Is Too Small. In it he outlines our human tendency to remake God in our own image; to expect that He will work like some ideal human being. To that end some see Him as a celestial policeman...
01/09/2017 20:49
Read more
Our amazing God has created all creatures with a wide variety of ears that can hear. Some, like turtles don’t have exterior ears but interior canals, but they can still hear. Bees don’t have ears, but they hear through the vibrations on their legs and antennae. All animals can hear, but not all...
01/04/2017 19:07
Read more
There is something about Christmas that brings out the worst in Americans. Take for instance Centerville Elementary School in Lancaster County, Pa. The school’s fifth graders have been performing “A Christmas Carol” for decades. But this year the play was canceled because two parents complained...
12/20/2016 10:51
Read more
