This is a condensed transcript of my July 10, 2011 sermon. We humans sure have a knack for messing things up, don’t we?!  I tried to avoid the Casey Anthony trial at all costs, but I broke down last week at the gym when I turned on the TV at the machine I was using [...]

I hate election season.  I’m not anti-voting, anti-democracy, or anti-American.  I just hate the onslaught of negative media campaigns where political opponents slam, slaughter, and condemn one another.  It’s so bad that my kids have caught on.  We try to out-do one another with ridiculous and hilarious fake smear ads.   On the way to [...]

This has got to be one of the sweetest, most touching videos I’ve seen in a long time.  This precious 6-year old girl knows her Bible…well, at least the story of Jonah!

Then the LORD said to Joshua: “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood. Joshua 20:1-3 Here is the continuation of the last post exploring the parallels [...]

Then the LORD said to Joshua: “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood. Joshua 20:1-3 Here is the continuation of the last post exploring the parallels [...]

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. (Proverbs 18:10) The Lord is our refuge. The Lord is our rescuer. No matter what we’ve done. No matter if we’ve done it multiple times. No matter what we face. God is our refuge and strength. He’s [...]

“Some people go to Florida for Spring Break, but we go to Ohio.”  This is what Taylor said as we were running from a store to our car in a freezing rain and sleet storm on the first night in my hometown of Van Wert, Ohio.  Potter Spring Break 2010: Northwest Ohio. All eight of [...]