Last week I told you about the best summer job I ever had, and it was working on a ocean going salvage tugboat that went to the North Pole in 1981. But I had my first summer job at sea when I was fifteen and for the first two summers of my high school years…

We are told to never surrender, to never give in and to never give up. Common wisdom is that surrendering is to give up and giving up, that’s just something we shouldn’t do. last week I read a portion of Churchill’s address to the British House of Commons where he told the nation that they…

It’s almost a dirty word.  One that nobody wants to use, and certainly not a word that anybody wants to be identified with.  In today’s culture of shame, you can probably think of any number of words that fall in that category, and that society has taken to referring to by their first letter, as…

 It is probably one of the most memorable scenes from the New Testament.  For three years they had travelled the width and breadth of Palestine, listening to him teach, watching him heal, marvelling at the miracles that he performed.  Sometimes they found what they were looking for and sometimes it came together in a beautiful…

Imagine having in your grasp the one thing that your heart desired more than anything.  Of being assured that whatever that one thing was it was yours.  What would you wish for?     Understand it’s not the genie thing, no three wishes but one.  What would your wish be?  And remember this is it, no…

Seventy-nine minutes into the game, the score was 12-10 for them. One minute left to play, Meninga got the ball and handed it off to Langer who in turn passed to Walters, to Carne and Renouf, Hancock, Smith, Langer, Meninga and finally Mark Coyne who had come on from the reserve bench slammed the ball…

What about Original Sin It has been the title of several novels, songs and movies and the inspiration for more art than I can count.   But we’re not looking at literature, music or art this morning. We are at the end of our “Asking for a Friend” series where we have answered questions that the…

In his 2005 song by the same name, Bon Jovi asks the question: “Who says you can't go home? Who says you can't go back? I been all around the world and as a matter of fact There's only one place left I wanna go Who says you can't go home?” Well, actually many people…

What about fasting? I am on a quest.  And have been for years.  Some of you have been on a similar quest.  For some it is a major quest, and for others it’s a minor quest, but a quest never the less. And that quest is weight loss.  And it seems like it’s been never…

Her name was Antoinette Brown and she would become a part of history.  Antoinette was a committed abolitionist, a campaigner for temperance, and an advocate for women’s rights. Miss Brown was a popular lecturer at reform conventions nationwide and she also pastored a Congregational church in South Butler, New York.   But none of those things…