Back in ancient days when I was in what was then called Junior High School, 8th or 9th grade, one of our English teachers would put an expression on the black board and ask us…

Sometime back in grade school, many ….. many years ago, we were introduced to the 1913 poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer with its beginning line, “I think that I shall never see a poem as…

Well of course we have with the passage of time. We’ve gotten older. We have a lot more technological innovations changing the way we work and play. We’ve learned new things. Yes, of course all…

I am a grandfather and therefore about 40 years removed from raising our five children. But I still think a lot about that era and what my wife and I did with our kids. There…

An editorial recently printed in our Frederick newspaper asked the question, What is an American? It was by Fred Fransen, President of Huntington Junior College in W.Va. He pointed out that our country was founded…

I have never gotten involved in politics except for my own voting preferences. But this year is different, at least in my making some comments about what is happening nationally. Our country is in total…

Sin – now there is an interesting word to start a mid-week morning. But anyone who has read even parts of the Bible know the word and have some thoughts about what sin is. Sin…

I had intended that Part 2 would come the following week from Part 1, but as usual life happened and pre-planed time schedules must comply. But now let’s continue our look into Christian Maturity. Maybe…

By the title of the book I’ve recently revised, Not For This Life Only, it could be taken primarily as preparing for our life after death. However I don’t consider that the main point of my…

In the last post I mentioned that I was delayed in uploading my post because “life happened and we had to comply”. Well the life that happened was a four day stay in the hospital…