During my years at seminary, I was very poor and always looking for work to earn money. I was very fortunate to get hired on with a landscaper. My first day on the job we went to the house of a retired physician. This guy was a serious gardener and took a lot of pride in his yard. Our job was to move a huge mountain of wood chips and put them all over the hill behind his ...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil is the name of a 1989 comedy film starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The premise was simple enough. Pryor plays a blind man and Wilder plays a deaf man. Collectively they witness a homicide and need to depend on one another to relate what happened to the police. I honestly cannot remember if I saw the movie or not, but it's probably good cons...

Mark's Gospel is abrupt and straight to the point when it comes to Easter morning....

Most of us have a bias toward action and doing as opposed to inaction or just being. What can we learn from Peter's reaction to the miracle of the Transfiguration?...

In case you are not familiar, here is an introduction to the services of Holy Week...

A Walk in the park on the cusp of Spring reminds us of how nature is ready to burst forth in life. So much potential, and this is like our relationship with God at all times...

An original analogy for church work from the Book of Nehemiah....

Getting to the heart of Jesus' clearing out of the Temple courts in John chapter 2...

Pastor Chuck has Psalm 139 on his mind lately......

Paul challenges the believers in Corinth to put Christian concern for their brothers and sisters above personal freedom....