As the years have crept up on me, I find myself on the living room floor each day. No, I don’t fall coming down the hallway, and no, I’m...

It seems like the move for the past quarter century or more has been to get rid of pews. I don’t believe there have ever been any pews in...

After some pondering we decided to go ahead and do it. On Thursday this past week out of a lottery system of sorts, our names were drawn...

Ah, the romance, the commercialism of February 14th! The second part of that seems to creep into every holiday or special occasion we...

Except for the times it is associated with first, one gets a bad rap. And even being associated with first isn’t always great. I would...

Well, at the time of writing this, we don’t know for sure. But then again, we do. No, it is not the Republican party and their list of...

Somewhere along the line, I became the breakfast cook in our family. It may have been because of my love for breakfast, or that I was...

My dad had a saying, though as time has gone on I realize that it wasn’t his saying, but one he had heard. I found this with many of my...

Though I have my strong--and in my opinion, correct--political views, I really try to keep them separate from my Christian views. This is...

Reposted from Hannah Orr's blog. A while back I discovered that many zoos have special times where people can come and feed giraffes...

I think over the years we have come to better understand what the church is and more importantly, what it isn’t. I remember a children...

There is an event in Israel’s history that has always caught my attention because of God’s power and man’s focus. It takes place in the...

I really shouldn’t work on my financials just before I go to bed. Some may say, “Yeah, it is too depressing” and some months it could be,...

By Holly Schilling “He reached down from on high and took hold of me. He drew me out of deep waters.” Psalm 18:16 Sometimes I think of my...

I am not sure how they calculated it or why they even did, but someone has calculated how many miles Paul traveled. The calculation from...

I remember a number of things about my dad as I was growing up. He was always there when I had a ballgame, be it baseball, basketball or...

Most of us are familiar with what happened a couple of years ago in the NFL. Football players started taking a knee in protest during the...

I was the breakfast cook around our house when the kids were growing up. It’s not that Holly couldn’t, or wouldn’t, but I loved...

Yea, cold and Satan are two words you usually don’t hear together or associate with each other. Anytime you think of temperatures...

Not sure if you are like me, but if my cell phone rings and the number is not in my address book (ie. a number rather than a name pops...