For While We Live …

For While We Live …

Recently we had a little issue in the church office when we ran out of toner for the printer/copier. Long story short, I drove up to the Canon distribution facility on a rainy day because we had to have that toner to print the newsletter, bulletins, etc. When I...

Giving Up on Perfect

Recently when I was driving our son Tim to school, he started a conversation with me about something from last year’s school experience when he was in first grade. It reminded me of something from the year before when he was in kindergarten at Clissold Elementary in...

Raising Up Destruction by Living Generously

Today is Veterans Day, which has its origins in the November 11, 1918 armistice agreement to end WWI, 94 years ago today. WWI was known as the “Great War” and “the war to end all wars.” Within two decades after the end of the “war to end all wars,” Germany violated...

A Byword Among the Nations

We have all witnessed over the years several prominent public figures repenting—or seemingly repenting—of their misdeeds on the television.  Whether it is a politician like Bill Clinton, Rod Blagojevich, or more recently Scott Lee Cohen, or a sports figure like Tiger...