Worship

Our HAYRIDE God

The fall season is a flurry of activities. Summer has turned, and the heat is gone. The cooler weather is bracing, and underneath the smiles, we feel the bitter bite of winter’s winds just on the ...

Our Bloodied Knees

The shrine of Fatima about 70 miles north of Lisbon Portugal has one of the most distinct provenances of any pilgrimage site in Europe. It does not date from the Middle Ages, but rather from the ...

In the Harry Potter series of movies, Harry has a cousin who is an oaf. His parents dote on him, trying to buy his love with unearned praises and undeserved gifts. At one celebration, the boy counts ...

Our BONFIRE God

What is a bonfire all about? That’s easy. It gives us light in the darkness, warmth in the cold, and it draws everyone from miles ...

The Cheering Section

On sitcoms, we cue up the laugh track. At a sports event, we put our hands together. In other situations, we can root someone on, inspire a colleague, or even attend a pep ...

Our FEAST God

It is in the changing of the seasons that our lives leap forward in mighty strides. One of the most distinctive seasonal changes comes in the fall when the trees drop their leaves, signaling that ...

Our MAGNIFICENT God

There are people who plan their vacations each year around the advent of the annual fall foliage bloom. It is the culmination of the summer growing season, and it is generally regarded as one of the ...

Our GOLDEN God

One of the first signs that the ravages of summer have come to an end are the changing colors in the trees. The tips of the leaves begin to take on the slightest tints of red and orange, and we feel ...

Our SUNNY God

A summer day filled with rain is like a sparkling jewel broken off a beautiful ring and tossed into the sea. It is wasted forever, and it can never be retrieved to be enjoyed ever ...

Our TRAVEL God

Advertisers like to promote how our world continually grows smaller and smaller. What they’re saying is that our access to the world is getting better and better. What we only heard about a century ...

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 RECREATION God

In August, it’s time to punch up the summer. It is a time of last hurrahs, one final week at the lake house, and one more cookout around a campfire. It’s time to blow it up big, to make sure our ...

Stained Glass Symphony

When we think of grand and glorious, we picture things that give us a sense of pleasure or awe. A grand sunset, an image of the Grand Canyon, or even the MGM Grand, the largest hotel in the United ...