Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, have you ever run into someone who looked familiar but you didn’t quite recognize them? A few weeks ago I went to Wisconsin for my grandmother’s funeral. It was really nice to see so many of…

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, No one really knows exactly what the purpose of dreams are.  Some have guessed that it is our brain’s way of organizing and processing the information that our minds have taken in.  Others have suggested that dreams…

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, have you ever lost something important? A few years ago I had performed a wedding for a friend of mine in California and as a thank you, his new father-in-law gave me a generous $200 Visa…

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, when I was growing up, I liked to climb things -especially trees. We had this large tree in the back of our house that my siblings and I named the “Climbing tree.” The branches were just spaced…

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus our Savior dear friends in Christ: “Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars, any heart not tough or strong enough to take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain, love is like a cloud holds a lot…

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, everything changed, but nothing changed. Emerson Eggerichs is a well-known marriage counselor who wrote a book called “Love & Respect.” In one of his marriage seminars, he related a story about how everything changed, but nothing…

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, has this happened to you? You’re driving your car and all of a sudden you hear a strange ding coming from somewhere in the car. You look down and there on the dash is one of those dreaded check…

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, have you ever had a sliver? I’m guessing that one point or another each one of us has had the experience of having a sliver. Some slivers are nice and easy to get out and you…

Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, at the end of 2016 my wife Katie and I had the opportunity to visit the Minneapolis Institute of Art. I had never been there before, but the reason we went was they had a 500th…

Grace and peace are yours from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, how does it feel to be rejected? Have you ever been rejected? I’m guessing that most, if not all of us, at some point or another has felt the pain of rejection. If you’ve ever been the…