My Church Notes

A Sewer Stink

Television personality Mike Rowe hosted a show called Dirty Jobs for many years. In the series, he tagged alligators, eradicated invasive insects, and cleaned out city sewer lines. There was no place ...

Pressure Cooker Promises

Home canning is a method of heating food in a pressure cooker in order to keep it edible for an extended period of time. It works because the trapped steam inside the cooker raises the temperature an ...

Our Tally Marks

Our bodies need the sun. Its light is widely accepted as a mood trigger. Yet, in winter, the days are short, and the hours of darkness seem to devour our every waking moment. We wait desperately for ...

Abandoning Our Sinking Ship

When the great ship Titanic sank in 1912, most of her lifeboats departed the ship only partially filled. While there were not enough lifeboats for everyone, many people lost their lives because they ...

Our HOODIE God

The coldest 30 days of winter tend to cross over from the end of January into the first of February. February 1st falls right in the middle, making it statistically the most frigid day in the entire ...

Don’t Count Your Candy

It is fun to start a party with a jar of candy, and have each partygoer write down a guess as to the number of candies in the jar. The reason? So that we can reward the closest guess with a prize, ...

Etched Upon God’s Heart

A mother of five, relatively affluent, had trays of jewelry she loved to wear. When a favorite granddaughter graduated high school, her grandmother offered her any of her rings for a ...

Bomb Proof

Absolute safety in the modern day world is hard to find. No matter what safeguards we put up, someone comes up with a way to breach our defenses. From computer viruses cracking our Internet firewalls ...

Those That Would Devour Us

There is the old fable of Androcles and the lion. Androcles removed a thorn from the wounded lion’s foot pad, thereby befriending the lion. Years later, Androcles was forced to fight in the Roman ...

Our NIPPY God

It’s on those sunny winter mornings when the world outside is crisp and clean that we feel drawn to the outdoors. We feel the brittle air slide down our throats, and the world seems brand ...

At the Switching Station

The great trains that traverse our country carry goods by rail to distant destinations. Once they are sent on their way, they cannot change course. Unless they come to a switching ...

Sunday Every Day

For the Christian, Sundays have a special feeling. We have time to wake gradually, breakfast can be a leisurely affair, and the entire family is together all day long. It’s more than that, ...

Surround Sound Communication

Life is lived in surround sound. Car stereos blast from multiple speakers. Headphones give us amazing realism. The Bose company advertises single box speakers that mimic sound truer to life than ...