January 9, 2025 - Have you ever watched a small child as they observe the simplest things in life? I love to watch my grandsons as they marvel at the small creatures that God has made. Small children see the beauty in butterflies that often as adults we take for granted. They observe ants and various other bugs. Truly, small children “wonder” at the creation and order of this world around them.

December 12, 2024 - Did you ever wake up early Sunday morning, the neighbors are all in bed, the streets are quiet and the yards are empty? The world is asleep as you prepare for worship on the Lord’s day.

November 29, 2024 - It’s Thanksgiving Day! It will be a day of good food and family time and watching football games. Most of us will eat much more than we should and then wonder why we ate everything we did when we are so miserable. I often wonder if among the food, family and football if we really pause to realize just how much we have to be thankful for.

November 7, 2024 - Have you ever noticed how complicated some folks want to make religion? We live in a world of problems. Preachers even spend a lot of time pointing out the problems of our time.

October 24, 2024 - Believe it or not, there have been times I have been accused of being too “narrow minded” when it comes to spiritual matters. Yet, Jesus said in Matthew 7:14, “Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.” There are actually other areas of life where you find narrow-mindedness.

There is no room for being broadminded in the chemical laboratory. Water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. The slightest deviation from this formula means you do not have water.