My Church Notes

The Person with Two Faces

What does it mean to be two-faced? The term is not a literal one, for no one has two faces. Or do ...

The Invisible Jesus

A mime paints his face, and he becomes an icon. If he were to wipe his face clean, we would not know ...

We all know the adage that when something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Bernie Madoff bilked unwitting investors out of more than $50 billion dollars. How? He offered a gleaming reward ...

Our ICE CREAM God

It’s the darkest hours that come in the heat of the battle that tempt us to throw in the towel. However, when the heat is on, it’s ICE CREAM that we ...

The Price of Purple

How do we determine something’s value? Is it found in the cost of manufacturing the item? Or do we look at the amount of profit we hope for? How about sentiment? Can that add real value to an ...

Priming God’s War Machine

By the time of the American Revolution, many of the great wartime artillery pieces we are now familiar with were commonplace. Short cannons, called mortars, and the long guns we picture as cannons ...

When the Lights Go Out

In 2003 a massive blackout swept across the Northeast, stretching from Ohio to New York, and reaching from Canada in the north to New Jersey and Connecticut at its ...

Blood and Water

A volcano contains a furnace that can melt even the hardest of rock. In the heat of that volcanic furnace, layers of vastly different materials can become twisted together in such a way that two ...

Gaining Wisdom from God

Technology constantly requires us to get smarter. A single remote control operates our TV, the DVR, the lights, and the ceiling fan. We maintain friendships on Facebook, and we have computer screens ...

Withstanding the Pressure

The biggest and most successful building project ever attempted in the United States was that of Hoover ...

We Can Know That We Know

In a court of law, a jury must determine someone’s innocence or guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before they can be ...

Our BEACH God

The heat of summer draws us to the ocean just as the pressures of life draw us unto God. In the same way that we are refreshed at the BEACH, so are we refreshed when we spend time with ...

What Is Faith?

What is faith? Is it the lack of doubt? After her death, Mother Teresa’s diaries were published. In them she expressed her doubt that God existed. Yet, no one can deny the good she did in his ...