My Church Notes

Our Infamous Stalker

John Lennon of “Beatles” fame was an open and gregarious man, willing and eager to greet fans and sign autographs. He was killed by Mark David Chapman outside his apartment just hours after he ...

Our SUNFLOWER God

SUNFLOWERS are some of the tallest flowers found. They can reach as high as twelve feet into the air, dwarfing all other plants in our ...

Our Great Adventure

To find something beyond our own four walls is something many of us strive for and never find. Things get in our way, and each time we open the door to the outside world, we are pulled back by an ...

To have an edge is to have an advantage over our competition. If we discover a new technique for improving the mousetrap, then our product will fly off the shelves, and no one will be able to compete ...

Our Beautiful Adornments

To follow after Jesus is to shun all physical decorations and to refrain from any worldly involvement. We must dress in simple, bland fabrics and apply ourselves with all diligence to hard physical ...

Becoming Like Jesus

Noah Webster created his second and most renowned dictionary in 1828. In that pivotal and comprehensive book, when he defined the word adopt, he said it meant to take a stranger and give him the ...

Opening Credits

When we read the ingredients on a package of food, the first items on the list are the most important ones. If it says sugar, then we can know that sugar is the number one ingredient in that ...

An Extra Cup of Bleach

Whites are the most notorious of fabrics to maintain to perfection. From white socks to white table linens, how can we get those pesky stains out? We scrub those grass marks, we pretreat that sauce ...

A Higher Authority

In the United States of America, who is the top authority in wartime? Who is the man who has final say over troop action, battle decisions, and whether we move against an enemy or back down in the ...

The Claws of the World

When a great cat of the African wild apprehends a victim, the feline attacker often takes down a prey many times larger than she is. A number of skills enables her to do this, including cunning, ...

Our SEASHORE God

One of the best things about visiting the seashore is wading in the surf to locate as many types of shells as we can. Each is an example of a unique sea creature created by God to live out its life ...

Kick Out the Devil

Sometimes a boot is the best thing we can own. We need to think of the Texas style, the long-throated, jean-draped, pointy-toed boot that is durable for all occasions, from slipping easily into ...

The Arms of the Snake

In June of 2014, two cars went up for sale on a televised automobile auction. They were both from the same collector, and both had been bought and still belonged to the original owner. One was a ...