Monthly Archives: February 2020

I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day, and thirty years ago today Voyager I was completing its mission in the solar system.  It would continue on into deep space periodically reporting back to earth as long as it was functional.  It … Continue reading →

How does this blog writer take a historical event anniversary and turn it into a spiritual blog? Here goes nothing… The Missouri Compromise. Senator Henry Clay introduced a bill that would admit Missouri into the union as a slave state … Continue reading →

Your name is special to you.  Your parents most likely thought carefully about the name they chose for you.  Now you may or may not like it, but to them it was important.  Some of us are named after relatives; … Continue reading →

Recently I have read lots of articles regarding angels and whether they exist or not.  If they do exist, what is their role and how does that affect us? I know of people, my mother being one of them, who believed … Continue reading →

Originally posted on February 15, 2016 by our friend Helen. These words have become familiar phrases in our speech, but what do they mean?  Pay back may be as simple as returning a favor or paying a debt, or as … Continue reading →

I was thinking about this Tom Cochrane song the other day while driving along a busy Florida highway.  I wasn’t in a big rush, but everybody else was.  Cars were whizzing in and out of the lanes, narrowly avoiding catastrophe … Continue reading →

Yesterday was President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, a holiday in Illinois, The Land of Lincoln, where I’m from.  Lincoln was an unlikely man to become president. He grew up in poverty, had no formal education, served one term in congress, and … Continue reading →

            Have you ever had your mind wander during a sermon?  I have, and I suspect that it’s happened to you.  Sometimes its because the sermon isn’t the most stimulating, but most of the time it’s due to our limited … Continue reading →

This blog is taken from a story out of Stephen Covey’s “Living the Seven Habits”. South Bend, IN – where some of our congregation have connections – is a Principle-Centered Community. This is a grassroots coalition of organizations committed to … Continue reading →

“Eureka” exclaimed Archimedes when he discovered a method to estimate the volume of a given mass, an epiphany for him.   Isaac Newton had a Eureka moment in the 1680’s, when he realized that a falling apple and the orbiting moon … Continue reading →