“The Gift of a Heifer” I remember talking to my mom and dad when I joined the 4-H club in the 4th grade. As a motivated 4-H member, I desperately needed a project to prove my worth in our club. My best friend was planning to raise a steer from his father’s Black Angus herd. [...]
Quinn’s Silver
“Quinn’s Silver” On this Valentine’s Day of 2016, just after my wife Dorothy and I celebrated 35 years of marriage, over a night steak and potatoes dinner, with horse radish Au Jus which I made from our garden, I was reminiscing around the dinner table and remembered this story for my son Ben. My grandfather, [...]
Driving the Car Backwards, Part 4
“Driving the Car Backwards, Part 4” BBC News- April 22, 2017 “There has been unease among researchers since Mr. Trump was elected in November. More than 600 professors from one of the country’s leading research Universities, MIT, signed an open letter before his inauguration expressing their concerns. It stated: “The president-elect has appointed individuals to [...]
“Easter Meditations”
“Women Looking On Afar Off” April 14, 2017 “Good Friday” This morning while reading my personal meditation of the morning, from Mark chapters 14-15, as my way of honoring Christ on this Good Friday, I write about this little statement in Mark 15:40-41. Here is what it says: There were also women looking on [...]
“The Last Days?”
The speculation of the end of days or “the last day” or “the day of the Lord” has taken up a great deal of the thought time of the human race from our very beginnings, as most societies of our human family have at least some speculation about these matters. So, for the instruction and [...]
“Booger Branch Holler”
“Booger Branch Holler” “Are they speaking English?” asked Caroline. Caroline is from Texas and she and my daughter Hannah went to a local Halloween display presented one night at “Denver Downs Farm”, where they were thoroughly entertained in the cornfield maze, the scary elevator ride, and petting both calves and small goats. Hannah even reported [...]
Snakes In The Church
Some time ago, when I was pastor of a Presbyterian Church, the season of Lent came, then Easter, the Sundays after Easter and then the season of Pentecost. This event occurred after the celebration of Easter, but before Pentecost Sunday. It was in the late spring, but before Pentecost in May. The seasons of [...]
He Descended Into Hell
In the Presbyterian Church worship, one of our main creedal statements is the Apostles’ Creed. It is a creedal statement which is believed to represent the faith of the early Christian church, perhaps from around 100 AD-200AD. It is used across many denominations and is part of our regular Sunday worship. While practicing [...]
A Lonely Man Smoking
Leaving a local restaurant tonight I noticed an older middle age gentleman smoking on the covered porch outside. He was alone, as are most smokers these days, since smoking is banned in so many places. The moon had risen in the east. He was looking east in the direction of the moon. He seemed to [...]
Umlaut the Cat
“Umlaut”, aptly named for the German symbol (two dots) over any vowel in the German alphabet, is my cat. I did not know he was my cat until my daughter Hannah presented him to me after she and her mother went to a fancy cat breeder. Umlaut had been designated as a “non-show cat” by [...]
Modern Stories of the Way 