Happy December,I think I have mentioned before that I have a December birthday and  growing up, my mother would not allow us to decorate for Christmas until my birthday was over.  I understand she was trying to protect the celebration of my birthday, but practically it bought a bit of consternation to my younger sister and also to my grandmother who lived nearby.   On the evening of my birthday, u...  Read More

Happy Saturday Evening,Tomorrow marks the first Sunday of the Advent season.  As you may know, we traveled this year for Thanksgiving.  Our trip was about 750 miles round trip by car.  With holiday traffic,  that amounted to about 13 hours in the car.  Just a couple of weeks ago, Lori and I travelled to Chicago by airplane.   The roundtrip distance for that trip was about 3,500 miles but we spent ...  Read More

Happy Saturday,This has been a good week for our family.  During this week every year we celebrate three family birthdays.  It begins with the birth of our only son and finishes with the birth of our youngest daughter.  In the middle we celebrate the birth of our oldest daughter's only daughter (our granddaughter).   That is a lot of celebration for one week but I am reminded as we celebrate, the ...  Read More

Greetings from the Windy City of Chicago,Lori and I are privileged to be here with the saints from our church in Worth, IL which is a suburb of Chicago.  We began the weekend of services with a text from Hebrews"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned ...  Read More

Autumn greetings to all, I know many of you call this season, "fall".  That designation came from the phrase "fall of the leaf" which became popular in 16th-century England by poets of the time and was eventually shortened and brought to North America by British settlers.   Interestingly, "autumn" remained more popular in Britain.   Personally, I prefer autumn because the phrase "The Fall" is grea...  Read More

Greetings a little early from Seattle,I'm writing today rather than Saturday because tomorrow is filled with a couple of exciting and momentous events.   They have caused me to consider something which theologians call the Imago Dei  (Latin for "in the image of God") .  The basis for this is taken from the creation account found in Genesis 1.Genesis 1:26–28 And God said, Let us make man in our ima...  Read More