"When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished....'" - John 19:30 Never in the history of the world have those words...

"After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scriptures), 'I thirst.'" - John 19:28 Today is the fifth...

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" - Matthew 27:46 Of all the words Jesus spoke from the cross, these strike the greatest chord,...

"When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, 'Woman, behold your son!'" Then he said...

"And he (Jesus) said to him, 'Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.'" - Luke 23:43 A little background from Luke...

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." - Luke23:34 Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the forty day period of...

Every so often I get in a bit of a slump. The same old - same old starts to get a little too redundant, and I begin feeling a...

Actually, today's post could be titled, "Time, Part II." It goes hand in hand with last week's entry, though that was not initially how...

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 Thinking about time today. It has been a...

"The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old." - Proverbs 20:29 If you've read these...

"And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life's span?" - Matthew 6:27 Sometimes you have to preach to yourself....

I suppose I'm pretty late to this whole "word" for the New Year thing. In fact, I'm so late I'm not even sure people are still doing...

The house smells heavenly! I just got back from picking up our Christmas tamales at Adelita. Because this is such a tiny house, the...

I sit here this drizzly morning, coffee at my side, admiring the little pencil tree that adorns the corner of my dining room. It's all...

It's almost here! I can hardly contain my excitement. In less than a week family will fill these walls to brimming, and it will be...

It's that time of year again. Our thoughts turn toward the final Thursday of November. Thanksgiving is coming, and we revisit, perhaps...

A couple of weeks ago I happened across an old show on YouTube that ran some twenty years ago on British television. It was called 1940s...

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending time in Spring, Texas, watching two of my grandsons while Mark and Laura attended a...

"Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God." - Romans 15:7 I have a thing for old chairs. Whenever I...

Sometimes God makes Himself known to us in the majestic. The crashing waves, the towering mountains, the fiery sunsets. We take it in,...