John 20:1-18 Everyone loves getting presents. Annie had her birthday last week and I brought her an abundance of flowers to let her know I love her. Presents are a great way to express our love and concern for someone. The visit last week of Matt Ristuccia, the senior pastor of Westerly Road Church, the…
Matthew 19:1-12 Normally when I look for jokes on a certain topic, I find just a few, ten or twenty at most. But when I looked for jokes on the subject of divorce, I was amazed at how long the lists were. Here is a small sampling: My husband and I divorced over religious differences….
Matthew 18:1-4 If I offered you today the choice to change your life and become again a four or five year old, how many of you would take me up on the offer? It might be your life is particularly difficult and you want a change, but in that case, you might want to change…
Romans 12:14, 17-21 One day in the early months of my time in Rabat, I was waiting by the Shell station on Mohammed VI for a woman who was going to show me some houses for Annie and I to look at. As I was waiting this guy came up to me acting crazy. He…
Romans 12:9-16 I would imagine some of you have read the book, The Shack, which has been popular the last couple years. The story is about a man who suffers a great loss when his young daughter is abducted and killed. He goes to a shack where he meets the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy…