2 Peter 3:1 (NIV) “Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.” I gave a new writing prompt to my students for their next writing assignment: “How Incoming 4th Graders Can Survive Mrs. Nichols Class.” We brainstormed all the…
World’s Greatest Dog
I have the world’s greatest dog. She came into my life twelve and a half years ago. And soon I will have to say good-bye to her. I had always said I would have two dogs once I moved into my new home, one would be a chocolate lab and the other a yellow lab. …
Happy Easter
He is risen! He is risen indeed! Today we celebrate the greatest day mankind has known. The day Jesus Christ rose from the dead. What does that mean to you in your life? To me, it means everything. I love the Lord. And the only reason I can say that is because He first loved…
Good Friday
Luke 23 (NIV) Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.” So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have…
Maundy Thursday
Growing up in a Methodist church we celebrated Maundy Thursday. If you grew up in a traditional denomination my guess is so did you. If not, you missed out. Today I attend a church that does not have a Maundy Thursday service and it makes me kind of sad. I invite you to join me…
New Creation
Yesterday morning, as I was driving to work, I heard the story “The Ragman.” If you have never read it or heard it, google it. There are several performances of it on You Tube. Here is a brief synopsis. It is the story of a ragman who would trade old rags for new rags. Along the ragman’s journey he…
A Writer’s Reflection of Holy Week
I love writing. It is a release for me. It allows my creative juices to flow. You may have noticed I haven’t written in about a month. During that month our computer was giving us fits and we were trying to nurse it along. Finally, it died. I don’t like shopping for things like computers. I told…
Jesus Visits the Temple
Matthew 21:12-14 “Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a ‘den of…
Palm Sunday
John 12:12 – 13 & 17 – 18 “The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna!’ ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of Lord!’ ‘Blessed is the King of…
Compassion
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 This weekend a dear…