Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin. — Proverbs 13:15 There’s a sign in the O’Fallon, IL Public Library that says, “Employers want candidates  who know the difference  between a web search  and research.” When you connect that sign and Proverbs 13:15, what do you get? Let’s live there. And…

On the seventh day God rested from work. God blessed the seventh day. God made it a Holy Day,  because on that day God rested from work. — Genesis 2:2,3 And we think we know better?! In the midst of this Week we designate Holy, when will you rest from your work? Maybe you need…

Reading forces you to be quiet in world that no longer makes place for that.

Palm Sunday Prayer We lay our jackets across the dirty lane, and you cross before us. We lift our voices to scream unashamed and fill your ears with our support of you. We do it with a child’s trust that change and goodness can come. Goodness will come through you, forever and ever. Amen. But…

…and picking up where we stopped yesterday —- Did you check out Mark 1:29-39 yet? If not, take a moment and do so and come on back. Lyn Pace asks us, “What would it mean for us to slow down?” Take as much time as you need with that answer. I’ve sure had to. Her second question points…

…picking up right where we left off yesterday —— Did you check out Mark 1:29-39 yet? If not, take a moment and do so and come on back. Lyn Pace asks us, “What would it mean for us to slow down?” Take as much time as you need with that answer. I’ve sure had to.

  “I am a college chaplain,” says Lyn Pace, “which means I see so much busyness firsthand in the lives of young adults.” She’s an ordained elder in the South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. “At our college, like most others, we boast that we have more than eighty clubs, which keep students…

Buckle up. Helmets on. This is beyond bumpy — I know you buff the surface of your cups and plates so they sparkle in the sun, but I also know your insides are maggoty with greed and secret evil. Didn’t the One who made the outside also make the inside? Turn both your pockets and…

  It had never worked right. It was an extravagant gift from a posh place far away and well past the time to exchange or return it. But it had never worked right. It was packed away and long forgotten. Surfaced recently. Still didn’t work right. Took a fresh look at it. Saw something I…

“My richness is Life. Forever.” — Bob Marley