I am going to begin with the following statement. "A job may sustain your life, but it will not provide you a life to sustain! It will not give you a life to prepare for! Do you have a "song to...

Traveling through life, if each day is committed to God, can be spiritually as well as physically renewing. Today's reflections come from two little girls, about third and fourth grade, at the KOA Cam...

Recently I received a letter from someone in another part of the country expressing sadness over the sin by which they have been overtaken. Even though their situation had nothing to do with me...

Several nights ago our phone rang at two in the morning, and for the next 45 minutes I was in conversation with a college freshman who, in tears at the beginning of the conversation, poured out her...

How many of you have ever received a special invitation to something real good? Wonderful! I've had some special invitations myself. Being invited to come to Roseau was a very special invitation for...

One of the characteristics that accompanies our "Peopleness," and which we struggle with many times, is ACCOUNTABILITY: He says,"why do I have to be in at a certain time?" She says, "It's MY room!"...

Picture yourself among the disciples: “Do you hear something?” A sound roars from the sky without warning, the roar of a violent wind, and the whole house where everyone is gathered reverberates wit... Full story

Choices! Life is filled with them. Not all of them with as short-lived results as flavors of ice cream. Robert Frost vividly captured the significance of life's choices in this poem. The Road Not Take... Full story

Main Idea: Abundance should result in praise to God, not pride in self! Getting ready for the "Big Dinner," as the day progresses more and more people get added to the guest list . You make more and...

One of the many neat things about grandmas is that they have great expressions and sayings to help everyone else sort out life. My grandma had a saying she would use every time I would understand some...

There comes a point in some cases where you say, "I've had enough." You get to a line and have to decide whether you will cross it or not. You know that you can't just stand there. If you stand there...

The Psalms are probably the best loved part of the whole Christian Bible. Even more so, I would suspect than the Gospels. We need to remind ourselves however, that originally they were not a Christian...

One of the risks of repeated celebration of any particular "Important Event" is the tendency to forget, to cease to care, or even to understand what inspired the celebration in the first place. Time...

"He Left Judea." The setting for our story is a four day journey by Jesus and his disciples from Judea to Galilee. Judea was in the southern most part of Palestine, and Galilee was in the northern...

On the last evening Jesus spent with his disciples they shared a meal together. A meal out of which has come our celebration of the Lord's Supper. After the meal, according to John, Jesus took a basin...

Recently in our adult Sunday School class we were looking at the importance of questions in life, and that if we "love the questions' of life, embracing them, and entertaining them as honored guests,...

Roseau- Manijeh (Mani) Nicole Starren was born May 23, 1989, weighing 9 lb. 11 oz., to Marvin and Ricki Starren in Roseau. Mani was found an angel on June 28, 2023. Mani went to grade school and high...

A week ago our vintage 21 year old 1968 Volvo turned 296,000 miles. It's been a great ride. Not trouble free but reliable. Last winter I joined the Volvo Club of America so I could be in touch with ot...

Think back with me for a few moments to the "skinned knees" of your childhood. What did you do? As a little kid, when, all-of-a-sudden, life HURT? Maybe it was a skinned knee, a bad dream, an upset... Full story

The story is told of a man who had been around from church to church, trying to find a congregation with whom he felt he could fit in. Finally he stopped at a little church. Just as the congregation,...

I saw a young lady on television one time who operates a traveling Elvis Presley museum in a mobile home. For the price of admission you can view all manner of Elvis "Stuff" including a clip off of... Full story

When I was in Jr. High there was a game being played by the boys that you could only play once with the same person. Once somebody had played the game with you, however, you could hardly wait to find...

"Faith," said a little girl, in response to a question posed by her Sunday school teacher, "is believing something you know isn't true." Now we smile at her answer, concluding once again that "kids...

It has been said that the task of the preacher is to comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable. If this is true then today's text gives me the opportunity to have something for everybody....

One of my favorite childhood games was Hide and Seek. How many of you have ever played Hide and Seek? Great! I hate to play alone! What a great game: Both the hiding and the seeking (and sometimes...