Bible at Home

The calendar has turned, and so has the weather. Beautiful cooler days have replaced our summer of gasping at the temperatures and hibernating inside. The feeling of fall has brought wonderful home made displays of pumpkins and exotic gourds, not to mention Halloween paraphernalia onto front yards and doors. It happened almost overnight, and the…

My roommate in college was a psychology major. She once told me that “maturity is really just knowing when to trust your intuitions.” I thought that it sounded good, but I couldn’t match that idea to my life. Ever since then her definition has come back to me and I begin to think I understand…

Once when my nephew Jim was showing me his back yard vegetable garden I asked him, “When you’re planting in the spring, are you thinking about what you’re going to plant next year?” He answered simply, “Always!” I smiled because my father, his grandfather, did the same. He would come in from planting radishes and…

St. Augustine once wrote in a sermon, “Behold, sometimes we are made glad by a certain inner sweetness. Yes, our mind has been able to catch a glimpse , for a fleeting instant, of something above change. . . .Now I have a sense throughout my being of something beyond time.” (Sermon 158) When we…

When I was in junior high school my class took a field trip to a newspaper publisher’s building where we watched the production of a newspaper. At one stop we saw a tall machine that we were told was one of the most valuable in the building . It had only one function, and only…

President Harry Truman famously kept a sign on his desk that read “The Buck Stops Here.” When I listen to the news or read the newspaper I feel as if our whole world is wondering where the “buck” stops, who or what is to blame for every natural or man—made disaster or even difficulty. Consensus…

The story of the Exodus is the story of freedom in every sense. It’s the story of a helpless people who cried out to God, and beyond all hope and expectation were entirely released from the bondage of slavery to a foreign power. This freedom required courage and obedience from the people, but no particular…

The Queen’s Laughter Queen Elizabeth II visited Houston in 1991 when I was living there, and I went to City Hall to see her. She and Prince Phillip were seated on a covered platform out doors overlooking the reflecting pond . The cheerleaders from the University of Texas performed with great enthusiasm and many leaps…

Holy Spirit Reading Everyone reads the Bible differently from everyone else. Some read it critically; others seeking direction or guidance; still others for entertaining stories. Some read to disprove the Bible or at least parts of it, and others read it for the beauty of its metaphors and language. There is another kind of reading…

At the grocery store now many food items have as many as three prices listed . The first price is for strangers who shop without coupons or a store card. The second is for those with a card only, and the third is for those with both a card and a digital coupon.As I’m not…