Sometime in Nov or Dec of 1956, depending on who has the final word on this, the phrase was uttered into a microphone, “Elvis has left the building” signifying the show is over and there is nothing else to be seen here.  From that point on, the phrase …….”left the building!” has been a cultural [...]

  I bought a floor lamp online from the local big box store, entered my cc information, “transaction complete, pick up at your convenience” was the reply. Next day I went to the store, showed my cell phone with the bar code receipt to the customer service personnel, parcel was handed right to me. No [...]

Click bait – we are so aware of it in our daily lives of internet use. Stories blown out of proportion or stated in such a way that causes us to want to know more but when we get there we realize it isn’t near what we were expecting. “1.3 million cars lost every year” [...]

  Having trouble believing that Father God will take care of you and supply all you needs? I invite you to consider what Paul says in Romans 8: 31-32. He writes, “What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he [...]

  Everything is framed in perspective! I was driving down the road a saw a young men standing beside his car talking on his cell phone. He was staring at his flat front tire. Thinking he probably didn’t have a clue on what to do, I swung my truck around and pulled in beside him [...]

  The call on the life of Jesus was to help others. Dale Mast writes, “Jesus did not leave heaven to help himself, but to help us.” In the same way the call that the Lord has on your life is not primarily for you, it is for others. It is for their gain, not [...]

  This morning I am sitting in a chair holding our two week old granddaughter, Hanna Grace. She is our sixteenth grandchild. I tried to tell her how much I love her but there is no way she is able to comprehend how deep my love is and to what extent I will go to [...]

Investing! Something we all think about and practice to a certain degree but in today’s market of immediate gratification, investing for the future seems meaningless and way too restrictive for many. Why wait for tomorrow when we can have it now? Few things can be gained without some kind of investment of either, time, money, [...]

  I was driving down the road a number of months ago contemplating a number of challenging situations I was then currently facing. Was I making the right choice, was I doing the right thing? Then this thought seemingly out of nowhere charged into my brain. “They are going to laugh at my funeral!” What??? [...]

  The disciples had just lived through the most traumatized few days of their lives. They had just experienced the horrible death of Jesus, their leader whom they had come to love and whom had so powerfully demonstrated the power of God’s love toward them and others. And now He was gone! What now?   [...]