Penn of DennTwo weeks ago, I preached on the topic "Live Like You Were Dying" and last week I saw evidence of what that looked like. I was at the funeral of Captain J. Andrew Rae and the preacher used the phrase, "A life well lived." And I thought to myself: At my funeral, I…

Penn of DennWhen the kids were little, we had a dog named Kato. After we had the pup for awhile, we discovered that while he was friendly with the rest of the family, every once in a while he would nip two year old Deborah. Nobody else, just Deborah. Without warning, we would hear a…

Penn of DennI think one of my New Year's resolutions this year will be: less news. I really don't think the world is getting worse, I think the news services are simply getting better at telling us how bad things are. I came to that conclusion this past week, as the cable news described in…

Penn of DennWhere does the time go? Christmas is a memory and we can almost reach out and touch 2009. 2009! Wow! It seems like only yesterday that people were hoarding water in anticipation of Y2K, what a letdown that was. James was right when he wrote in the Bible: "Your life is like the…

Penn of DennWell, Christmas is almost upon us and if you aren't ready, then you had better hustle.If you are like most people, you decided last Christmas, that this Christmas would be different. You vowed that you were going to slow down, that you weren't going to get caught up in all the commercialization of…

Penn of DennQuite the story from the States last week, about the Wal-Mart worker killed in the shopping frenzy that followed Thanksgiving Day. The Friday following Thanksgiving south of the border, has traditionally been known as Black Friday and I'm sure that name has a different meaning for at least one family this holiday season.One…

Penn of DennI came upon an article the other day, about a research venture called "The Methuselah Project." Those of you with a grasp of the Old Testament, have probably made the leap already. The Methuselah Project is looking into ways that we can stop or maybe even reverse, the aging process. As I read…

Penn of DennA couple of news stories have caught my eye the past few weeks. The first had to do with India's fledgling space program and the second had to do with said space program successfully landing a probe on the moon. Is it just me or is that a blatant case of spending money…

Penn of DennPerhaps I was a little idealistic, but I was really looking forward to November 5th and not having to hear any more American election rhetoric. But alas, it was not to be, because for the last week I've been listening to the post-mortem reports about what went wrong or didn't. What surprised me…

Penn of DennA friend of mine related a disturbing conversation he had with a co-worker last week. It seems his co-worker is a hindu who immigrated from India a couple of years ago and he told my friend that there was hardly a day went by in India that some didn't try to convert him…