Feb 1, 2018
Dear friends … Today begins “Love Month.” It will reach its climax on the 14th, whereupon at the end of the day card writers and flower vendors will smile all the way to the bank for their services rendered and rewarded. Please do not interpret the previous...
Dec 8, 2017
Dear friends … At age 11, I was in my final appearance in a children’s Christmas “program.” Our southwestern Pennsylvania church was heated by a coal furnace. It was economical … the coal was donated by a local mine. There was no thermostat or means to...
Oct 27, 2017
Dear friend … Five hundred years ago on Oct. 31, 1517, a German monk wrote a paper and posted it on a church door. Largely, it was a challenge to the leaders of the Catholic Church who had sanctioned the selling of “indulgences” as proof a person’s sins had been...
Sep 1, 2017
When Mona and I moved into the district parsonage, we were told the good news was there had never been water in that basement. Well, we had not lived there long when one week it rained quite heavily, and the next thing we knew there were several inches of water in the...
Jul 1, 2017
ONE OF THE PRAYERS in the Bible is, “Teach us to number our days that we might attain to a heart of wisdom.” I think the northern Ohio paraphrase of that might be, “Teach us to number the days of summer … because winter will surely come.” So, I hope you are...
