A few days from now, we will celebrate Valentine’s Day. In 2023, Americans spent $25.9 billion on this day alone. In 2024, the total was about $25.8 billion; in 2025, the spending is expected to be a record $27.5 billion. You would think that’s enough celebrating to make everybody in Read more…
The first Noel the angel did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay; In fields where they lay – RIP! . . . . The unthinkable had happened at my final concert of the year. As I turned the page of sheet music in the middle Read more…
Some of the best Christmas music invites us to listen. In “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, a lamb invites a shepherd boy to listen to a song high above the trees, then a king pleads with his subjects to listen to his message about a Child sleeping in the Read more…
Headlines remind us we live in disturbing times. Many things happening today would cause us to be fearful, and yet we are often reluctant to talk about our fears because it doesn’t seem like the godly thing to do. Paul’s spiritual son, Timothy, who ministered to the people of God, Read more…
“I’m going to need to refer you to a specialist,” my dentist told me during a routine tooth cleaning. It had been about 18 months since my last dental appointment. When my lower-right teeth started to feel pain after eating, I feared the worst. I must have a cavity, I Read more…
I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my Read more…
.341 is a sensational batting average. Maintain this for your career, and you’d rank within the Top 15 in Major League Baseball history. But apply this same percentage to your accuracy in journalism, and you’d be out of a job faster than you could write a resignation letter. One young Read more…
Can a nationalistic church worship God? Patriarch Kirill recently stated in a homily, “May the Lord preserve the Russian land. When I say ‘Russian,’ I use the ancient expression . . . the land which now includes Russia and Ukraine and Belarus and other tribes and peoples. That the Lord Read more…
On March 1, a U.S.-bound cargo ship sailing from Germany sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike the typical cargo ship, the Felicity Ace carried about 4,000 automobiles. The vehicles had been manufactured by Volkswagen Group and some of its sub-brands. What Is True Value? Among the thousands of VW, Audi, Read more…
It was going to be a great day! The suburbs of Chicago, Illinois were having their parades and gatherings to celebrate the fourth of July. People were coming alive again and celebrations were back. Things seemed to be moving in the direction of normality post-pandemic. It was a great day Read more…