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So, once upon a time in January, I was sitting in my office at home when I noticed a bit of pain on my left side. The pain got considerably worse over the next couple of days until I was in constant pretty severe pain. I had my wife take me into the emergency room where after a bevy of tests...

Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, social unrest, wars and rumors of wars. Are the end times upon us? How much longer do we have? There are books, movies, TV and radio preachers and programs, Websites and more that for just a small donation will give you the (their) answer. So, what the heck I...

There is an adage that says, “The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go astray” I’ve always been more of a seat of the pants kind of guy so the adage has only a general application to me. None the less the past ten days have not gone the I had planned. As I’ve mentioned before our...

Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to this. Every time I think I have my life on autopilot something unexpected shows up. So, my week turned out to be busier than I expected. Normally in our neighborhood our main worry is having things stolen, this week our problem was having unexpected...

Peggy had been an occasional client at our food pantry for several years. When she first came to us she had been a young woman, perhaps 20 or so, with two small children. Over the years she and the children’s father had married, their lives had stabilized, and we saw her less and less. She was...

I confess that sometimes I’m envious when I hear people give powerful testimony as to when, where and how they received their call to the pulpit. Don’t get me wrong. I do have a testimony that I recall very well. The date, the time, the place is etched indelibly in my mind. It’s just that it...