Decade Mile-Markers

As the have now arrived at the New Year, completing the first decade of the new millennium, I did a little reflecting.  These reflections are personal, and may not mean a lot to you, but they are my mile-markers over the past decade. Our youngest daughter, Anne Marie was born in the year 2000. Both …

Merry Christmas & A Happy Easter!

There are some things that I’m sure run through the minds of every preacher, but they are suppressed by our better judgment before they are ever spoken. For me, one of those unspoken thoughts occurs every Sunday prior to Christmas. I always find myself suppressing the urge to say, “Good to see everyone today. I …

100,000 Visitors!

I was going to give this $100,000 dollar bill away to the 100,000th visitor to my website.  However, there was just one problem.  I didn’t know the identity of the 100,000th visitor any more than I knew whose picture was on the $100,000th dollar bill.  But whoever the 100,000th visitor was, and whoever all the …

2012: End of the World?

This past weekend, Sony released Roland Emmerich’s thriller about a global cataclysm that is scheduled to take place in 2012. With the release of this movie (which I have not seen, nor will see due to the language) we will be hearing more and more about speculations of 2012 being the end of the world. …

Subnormal, Normal, & Abnormal

For some time now, I have been contemplating a phenomenon that I, through observation, could see existed, but I didn’t quite know how to verbalize. However, I think the words have finally come to me. I have observed that when the subnormal becomes normal, then what is normal becomes abnormal. I’ve reached this conclusion after …