My Church Notes

The Dog in the Well

In 2011 a Rottweiler named Leslie fell in a 20 foot dry well. It was a week before she was found and safely pulled out. Leslie’s story goes further. A year earlier, she had been rescued from being ...

Uncaged

We’ve seen the cartoon with the bird in the cage, the door open, and the tabby peering inside, just hoping for a meal. The bird quakes in fear, trapped by its precarious predicament. What has the ...

Polishing the Chrome

Car washes are found in every city across America. Drive in one side, dusty and dull, and we come out the other looking new again. However, how many of us take the time to get out of our cars and ...

Sharing Our Windfall

We all dream of riches. We hope to win the lottery. Or perhaps Great Aunt Claire will leave us fabulously wealthy. Maybe we will invent that indispensable tool that everyone has to have. Suddenly we ...

Our ACORN God

Fall can be a time of glorious beauty, as seen in the striking reds and oranges of the countryside. It is a time of harvest and a season of plenty, when all the labors of summer have come to an ...

Love Is in the Details

As we travel through life, many things are important to us: decent housing, enough food to eat, a sanitary water supply. If we are affluent, we add to that: medical care, freedom from financial ...

Forsaken by God

Imagine the most treasured possession we own. What is it? A spouse? A child? Maybe it’s something material, like a family heirloom that cannot be replaced at any cost. What would cause us to ...

When God Gives Us Peace

We live in a world of contention. Nations war against nations, bringing death and destruction; corporations buy out other corporations against their will in hostile takeovers; stores price match ...

Famine 101

We come into this world as innocent babes. However, we do not stay that way for long. We learn to talk, to walk, and to play nicely with others. In time we stretch our educational wings through ...

Our THUNDER God

Summer’s specific mixture of atmospheric conditions gives rise to the sound of THUNDER in the afternoon skies. Heat and humidity at the surface invade very cold air high in the atmosphere. In ...

Our Useless Mission

When we head to the grocery store, we have a goal. Bring home the groceries. If the pantry is full, and our spouse sends us to the grocery store anyway, are we there to window shop? Is it just an ...

The Harder Test

One premise of a good education is that once we’ve completed a course, we pass the test, and we move on. The course is complete. We no longer have to be tested over the same material. Yet, in our ...

The World Weeps in Mourning

What we hold dear is what we miss most when it’s gone. A treasured loved one; a sentimental Christmas ornament; a lock of hair. Others may see it as an irrational attachment, but all we know is the ...