Barb and I are vacationing in Florida with our family enjoying time together. It’s been fun and relaxing, getting to invest time with our grandkids and our one great-grandchild. But soon we plan to be home and back to reality. One of our son-in-laws commented this morning that, “so soon paradise ends.” But thankfully that Read more
Barb and I are planning to leave for a 10 day vacation tomorrow (Lord willing), so our bags are packed and I have a bit of time tonight, so I’ll post this a few days earlier than usual.
Up until this posting we’ve really had a very pleasant winter in Iowa without much snow. However, if we take a moment to gaze at snow in an open field or in town before it has been sullied by a human footprint or churned up and soiled by a snow plow, we can’t help but notice Read more
Kristin von Kreisler, a staff writer for Reader’s Digest, has written a book recounting true stories of the courage and kindness of a variety of animals called, “The Compassion of Animals.” One such incident she records is as follows:
The annual Children’s Meetings with guest speaker Dan Shutt will be held the week of March 25th through March 30th at 7:00 each evening.
Tonight Whitney Houston is in eternity. A columnist in Foxnews.com wrote: She had the perfect voice, and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer…who maintained perfect poise.” And everything I have read since has underscored that assessment.
When we try to discover the origins of St. Valentine’s Day, the best we come up with are legends. One tradition states tht Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage Read more
The Bible does teach that there is a real, literal, hell that burns with fire. We may wish it were not so, but wishing doesn’t change the facts. The Lord Jesus spoke of it and to deny it is to state tht He was wrong. If that’s the case, there is no Christianity and no Read more
Christian writer Philip Yancey wrote a book, What’s So Amazing About Grace. No doubt he was thinking about the well-known words of John Newton’s hymn: “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound; that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind, but now I see.”
As more bodies are being pulled from the stricken Costa Concordia, more stories of sacrifice are coming to light. One of those stories immediately brought to my mind the events of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus.
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
Christians gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ