I remember the day Michelle and I replaced our 13-inch television with a 25-inch model.  We were in awe and sat in wonder as we watched our favorite TV shows on the “big screen.”  After about 8 years, we then upgraded to a 32-inch massively large TV screen.  And then in our 15th year of [...]

I enjoyed a delicious chicken soft taco from a local Mexican joint for lunch today and told my wife afterward that IT was good.  And then I read about this: PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is calling for a more animal-friendly update to the Bible.  The group is asking translators of [...]

I am happy and relieved to report that our church’s missionaries in Japan, Leon and Cheryl Hill and their two adult children, are safe after experiencing the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit northern Japan last night. It appears that all of their fellow missionaries and church families are safe as well.  Most of the devastating [...]

My nephew, Nick Potter, just graduated high school and is an up-and-coming Christian rap artist who has entered a contest in his hometown of Detroit.  If he gets enough votes, he’ll get an opportunity to perform one of his songs on stage at a big Christian rap concert there featuring Grammy nominated Christian rap group, [...]

Today is Ash Wednesday, a day that begins the season of Lent for Christians.  There are 40 days (minus Sundays) until Easter, and the season of Lent is a time for Christians everywhere to prepare themselves to celebrate that glorious day.  Tonight, I will observe the beginning of the Lent season with my congregation by [...]

You hear and smell the lady two seats down from you barfing sporadically throughout your 8-hour flight but can’t quite make yourself wake-up enough to care. You fall asleep in the airport in Belgium while laying across a metal chair divider.  It hurts (a lot), but you don’t care. You hear this announcement at the [...]