FROM FIRST CLASS TO ECONOMY One of the nicest things that anyone has ever done for me happened about forty-five years ago high above the Atlantic Ocean. I had been […]

Being a Deacon When God decided to make you and me, he did the same thing that he had done when he made every human being. He embraced each one […]

The Bible is a love story. It tells us how very much we are loved by God – loved, no matter what. My life has been a love story as […]

One of the really great things about being a deacon is that we can be married and have a family. Wanda and I have been a family for 53 years. […]

“What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us? Just a stranger on the bus? Trying to make his way home.” 1 One of my favorite […]

Jesus said, “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. When he had agreed with the […]

When God made you and me God embraced us like a mother would bundle up a beloved child to go out into the cold for the very first time. And […]

“Dear George, I am so very sorry. Please pray for us that we may rid our society, and our hearts, of the mortal sin of Racism. Please pray that we […]

For many years I had deeply believed that we are each destined to be with God for all eternity. That regardless of the circumstances of our life or our death, […]

“The Lord is my shepherd: I shall not want . . . He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside still waters . . . […]