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…

To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and father, to Him be glory forever and ever, Amen. In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, When you turn on the TV, when you open the newspaper, when 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, Does this ever happen to you? This happens to me from time to time. I’ll be in a conversation with my wife about something, but something in our conversation will lead my mind down a certain…

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, a new TV show aired in the United States in 1997 on PBS. It was called the Antique Roadshow. In fact, the show is still running. What happens in it is that it travels around to…

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom God’s favor rests! In the name of Jesus, who was born to save us, dear fellow redeemed by His blood, has it ever happened to you that you’ve tried explaining something to someone, but no matter how hard you tried, they just didn’t get it? I remember a…

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, what does Christmas mean to you? What feelings does Christmas conjure up for you? I would submit that most people view Christmas as a cozy and comfortable. You know, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jack…

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, Do you have any “habits”? You do. I know you do. Why? Because we all have habits. Habits are behaviors that we have that we do without even thinking about it. There are good habits and…

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, I can still hear Professor Jeffers in my sophomore biology class saying, “Remember the five “P”s: Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.” That’s true, isn’t it? Imagine a couple of situations: You’re facing end of semester exams.…

Grace, mercy, and peace be yours from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In the name of Jesus, dear friends in Christ, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go, take a look in the five and ten glistening once again with candy canes and silver lanes aglow. It’s beginning to look a lot like…