On Thanksgiving weekend I was invited to participate in a beautiful Hispanic tradition for the Rolando Hinojosa family, the Quincenera for their daughter Marissa. It was a beautiful ceremony featuring Marissa’s faith and devotion to Christ and her family and friends love and devotion to her. Yesterday the local newspaper carried a feature article about […]
Times are Hard…
I listen to WWJ 950 to get weather and news. The other day I heard this add for Walsh College, illustrating how tight the job market is these days. Made me smile. A growing company in Southfield, seeks a team player who can walk on water. Must have strong presentation in 11 languages, including Klingon. […]
Watch this Message
in 2009 John MacArthur preached to young people at the Resolved Conference about how to choose a pastor and how to evaluate a church. No message in years has influenced me and impacted me as much as this message. Today, while making hospital calls, I listened to it again. I embedded it here so you […]
A Thousand Merry Christmases
A thousand Merry Christmases to you. For every weary retail clerk who has been cowed into muttering a dutiful, politically correct “Happy Holidays” I say; “Merry Christmas—A hundred Merry Christmases to you and yours.” Christ is Lord. He always has been and he always will be until the New Heaven and the New Earth have […]
Christmas Generosity
When I was a boy I delivered papers every morning. I collected on Saturday. If I went too early they resented it. If I went to late they were out and about. Some were faithful as clockwork. They put their sixty cents in an envelope and left it in a box on the front porch. […]
RIP Hiking Shoes
These shoes are thirteen years old. They have been to camps and trials from Flint, Michigan to Watersmeet in the UP. They have been from to Colorado and Wyoming to the Northwoods of Wisconsin. They have been from the Canadian Rockies to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Last night, while doing some rigorous Christmas […]