Back in May, we took a trip to Cabo San Lucas. We were able to go because we had some generous friends give us a week in their time share. When we checked airfare the tickets were over $600 per person. I thought about calling our friends and asking if they had […]
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Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was an American Christian and the other a Pharisee. The American Christian stood tall, and with outstretched arms, prayed, “Lord God, thank you for allowing me to be born in this great country and for making me who I am. I could […]
I preached Stella Hereford’s funeral earlier today. She was 87. Unless you already knew her, you wouldn’t have had any reason to get to know her. Several years ago she fell and broke her hip and spent her last few years on a walker.
If you saw her hobbling in and out of church […]
There were ten chairs in the celestial pressroom, arranged in a semicircle. The podium was front and center. Angels began to trickle in and fill the chairs. None of them knew why the meeting had been called.
Several minutes later the side door to the pressroom opened and in walked […]
He appeared outside one of the main entrances to the Woodland Hills Mall on the Friday after Thanksgiving. He had frizzy, red hair and a beard to match. He wore bright green overalls and a white undershirt.
When asked, he would say that his name was John.
“Like, as in ‘The Baptist?’” asked a teenager […]
Back in the day, I was a huge fan of “The X-Files.” One year in Bellingham, I did a six-month long series out of the Gospel of John and I called it “The X-Files.” I think the angle was that we were investigating the claims of Christ or something like that.
Anyway, […]
