It may seem strange to begin the Advent season with a reading from the end of Jesus’ life. Advent literally means “to come.” During the Season of Advent, we concentrate on the scriptures that speak of the 1st “coming” of Christ or the confident hope we have his 2nd “coming.”
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. I look forward every year to gathering with family and enjoying fellowship and good food. For me, it has always been a wonderful time of celebration.
I do not know much about financial investment, but I remember hearing a Crown Ministries talk while in college about compound interest. Dave Ramsey also teaches this concept in his course, “Financial Peace University.”
In our reading from Luke 12, Jesus was asked to settle a dispute between two brothers. One brother believes he has been wronged by his sibling and asked Jesus to tell his brother to give him his half of their inheritance.
In movies and in literature we often hear the idiom proclaimed, “Long Live the King” when one monarch dies and another takes their place. Allegedly, this idiom was first used in France upon the death of Charles VII in 1461.
In 2020 we lost the great Rock n Roll artist, Eddie Money of 70’s, and 80’s fame. Maybe it is a little stretch to call him “great”, but he did have some hits over those two decades, such as “I Wanna Go Back”, “Two Tickets to Paradise”, “Think I’m in Love”, and “Baby Hold On.”
Over the past couple of years, I have attended a number of church safety training sessions. It is a sad reality that these trainings are now a necessary part of leading a church, but the trainings have been helpful and informative on many levels.
I am sure you can remember as a child the old schoolyard chant, “Liar, liar pants on fire.” The chant was usually proclaimed when someone was caught telling a fib…
We all inevitably come to a time in our lives when enough is enough. We have done all that we can do and we just cannot do anymore. Life is an exhausting endeavor there are so many trials to endure, hills to overcome, and situations to conquer…
Like in most families, my family members do not always agree. I am the youngest of three and periodically throughout the year we all get together. Usually, our gatherings involve a shared meal. Inevitably during our meal together diverse topics of the world will come up for discussion…
