Today is my day to write about my mother. Through the first 23 years of my full-time ministry, I wrote about mother around Mother’s Day–a bulletin article, another sermon, even a poem or two. All of that changed with my mother’s death over 15 years ago. Now I write about my mother on Groundhog’s Day. Not …
Monthly Archives: February 2026
My Mother’s Birthday: 2/2/22
[Reposted from 2/2/22] Today is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 100 years old today. The unique, memorable, number combination has rolled around again, 2/2/22. My mother left this temporary earthly home and went home to dwell forever with the Lord almost 30 years ago. It seems that in timeless eternal existence, she is …
It All Begins with God–“With” [#1]
Beginning 2022 with the basics! Four questions. Who is God? Who are we? What was God doing in sending Jesus? How should we respond? If we do not know who God is, we cannot know who we are. If we do not understand God’s purpose, we will fail to understand our appropriate response. The message …