What’s it all about?

What’s it all about?

In today’s culture, two different Christmases are being celebrated. One has Jesus at the heart and as the heart of everything. The other consists of a mad and frustrated searching for that ever-elusive ‘heart.’ The first Christmas, sated with its ‘knowing,’...
Living a dream?

Living a dream?

Isn’t dreaming just the greatest? It’s limitless what our brain can spin as a tale in our sleep. We can fly, build (anything!), be movie stars, famous musicians, scholars, sleuths extraordinaire, and on and on. The sense of reality during one such session is amazing!...
Life Assurance

Life Assurance

We casually flip a light switch, confident there will be electrical current to our light. We seat ourselves on chairs, confident they are sturdy enough to hold us. We breathe easy as elevator doors close, trusting the manufacturer for its safe operation. We board...
A Note from Pastor Don

A Note from Pastor Don

Bread, growing up in my family, was strictly a homemade thing (I never had ‘boughten’ bread until I was a teenager, and I was, um, unimpressed, shall we say). I watched my mother knead that large lump of dough, on average, twice a week. Once, at around six years old,...
An Ode to the Season

An Ode to the Season

Summertime, and the livin’ is, um, humid (at least here in Virginia). More precisely, per the common complaint, hot and humid. And these weather conditions give rise to the most spectacular thunder and lightning storms. The latest such meteorological...