A Covenant With God

        “Cross my heart, and hope to die!”—Do you remember this simple oath from your childhood days?  It usually meant that you were really REALLY going to make good on your promise.  Children have such good intentions, don’t they? Now, let’s move into the adult...

Obedience is Better than Sacrifice

Parts of the Book of Exodus can be very “dry” spiritual reading.  Of course, the ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea can easily capture one’s attention.  But as one progresses toward the middle and end of Exodus, the reader is seriously wondering why God would...

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

How much attention do you pay to “road signs”?  If you are like most, you pretty much are on auto-pilot when driving on roads that are familiar to you.  (I wonder how many Highway 57 signs in Calumet County that we pass by without even realizing that they...

Another Pandemic?

1/12-24 By Just when one thinks that perhaps we have turned the corner on the pandemic front, you read about another pandemic on the horizon?  Just when we thought that we could develop vaccines and methodologies to keep us from harm’s way, we find that there is...

Doomsday Clock

Have you ever heard of the “Doomsday Clock”?  Apparently, it is the invention of a publication known as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Established in 1947, each year the public is alerted to how close we are to the destruction of this world. ...

Sin is Still Sin

As the Easter holiday approaches, most of us feel that we have “the basics” down pretty well.  We learned that Adam and Eve sinned, and that as a result God sent His Only Son, Jesus, to die on the cross.  His resurrection three days later conquered our sin...