I love the “aha!” moments in life. As I was sitting in my office this rainy, Friday morning, putting the finishing touches on this week’s sermon, I had one of those moments. My text this week includes the famed “golden rule” of Jesus found in Matthew 7:12, “In everything, therefore, treat people in the same … Continue reading →

I hate to lose. No, I really, REALLY hate to lose. I also hate watching my teams lose. I am a huge Nebraska Cornhuskers fan. For those not familiar with the history of college football, you would be hard-pressed to find a team with a deeper heritage, a better history of success or a more … Continue reading →

For the most part, my children have never experienced a high-school football game. For the last several years I worked with a small private school in Maryland that did not have a football team. As a result, this corner of American culture was left unexplored by my children, until a couple of weeks ago. I … Continue reading →

I’m a huge fan of podcasts. I download several every week of different preachers that I enjoy listening to, and as I drive around or work in the office, I plug in my ipod and enjoy a good sermon (hey, us preachers need to be fed too!) Recently, however, I noticed something. Several (not all) … Continue reading →

Our 3 year-old is fiercely independent. Recently potty-trained and armed with a tremendous amount of self-confidence, there is nothing she cannot conquer. The phrase of the week has been “I’d do’d it myself.” It’s an interesting construct of toddler grammar, accomplishing both present and past tense, which is essential in the mind of our daughter … Continue reading →

As summer winds down, I can’t help but wonder how it went by so fast! I see my kids excited for the beginning of the school year and I know, I’m more nervous than they are. This is their first year in public school. Their first year without Mom and Dad working in the same … Continue reading →

We have a new addition to the Richmond household. Apparently two kittens have taken up residence beneath the shed in the back yard. As far as I can tell they are only a couple of months old and my guess is that the mother abandoned them there. Of course as soon as they were discovered … Continue reading →

I find myself split in two this week. It is VBS week, which means I spend the better part of my afternoons prepping for VBS and my evenings are consumed with the program itself. Yet we also had a prominent member of the church pass away this week, which means I am also in the … Continue reading →

I know, two posts in one day! It’s like the bogo sales at payless! I couldn’t resist though. Today as we traveled to Richmond to eat lunch with my father we noticed this Blue Heron in the parking lot of one of the shopping centers off of route 1 in Hanover. What is so funny … Continue reading →

Have you ever been hungry? I mean really, really hungry? I have been blessed enough in my life that I have never known true, brink of starvation hunger. Now, when I was a teenager, I might have argued this point. It seemed I was always hungry and could never get enough to eat. (Proof is … Continue reading →