He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens...

Our theme and our focus for 2022 has been “The Journey.” We chose this theme to represent the journey we are all on as we move closer to...

The saying “Keeping up with the Joneses” comes from a comic strip from 1913. Most of us know it as a saying about competing with or...

At the beginning of this week, we were able to fit three adults in the back seat of our car. (Now, it was not the most comfortable fit as...

I wonder if someone inside this address in Lubbock, Texas was praying for me. If it would have been prior to early September 1982, they...

Thirty-five years ago Holly and I were part of a group that left West Texas to move to California. The group left the comforts of a large...

Not planning to retire anytime soon, maybe when I’m around 70, so I have a few years left. In those few years, I will work toward my...

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...

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 love geography, quite possibly because of it’s connection to weather. We in the Midwest are in an area unique to anyplace else in the...

A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the changing of the times for our campus devotionals. The changes weren’t based on needs or how to...

I remember when I first started attending a campus ministry almost forty years ago. The times of the Monday and Friday devotionals were...

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,...

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...

Ever have a bad day at work? Maybe you just got up on the wrong side of the bed, especially difficult if it is the side toward the wall....

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...

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...

Merriam-Webster dictionary online defines retirement as: · an act of retiring: the state of being retired · withdrawal from one’s...