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Email signatures are a little like fingerprints … identifying marks that distinguish us from others. Using one became a habit for me several years ago. Changing them annually aids my daily walk with Jesus … Here are reasons for why and how: One year I signed off with Abide in the Vine … to remind…

Tomorrow, President-elect Donald Trump will stand before a crowd of thousands to take the oath of office. Just as George Washington did when he was sworn into office as President in 1789, then Trump will deliver a traditional inaugural address. On the eve of this historic occasion, I’ve been listening to excerpts from previous Presidents’…

“Shout for joy, O childless one, you who did not give birth; burst into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the forsaken one will be more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD. “Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out…

Now that the NFL’s “Wild-Card Weekend” is finished, only four more weeks of football remain until Super Bowl Sunday on February 5th in Houston, Texas. Instead of drafting a pool to predict weekly winners, I propose a spiritually productive challenge. For every 15-min. quarter of NFL playoff football you watch on TV, computer or smartphone…

“Epiphany,” also known as “Three Kings Day” or “Twelfth Day,” falls on the 12th day after Christmas. The word means “manifestation” or “revelation” and is commonly linked in Western Christianity to the visit of the magi to the Christ-child, and thus Jesus’ physical manifestation to Gentiles. This Christian feast day celebrates the revelation of God…

Did you make any? … “New Year’s Resolutions” … We all have, at least once in our lives … But what do they mean … really? Of the dozen definitions for the word, “resolution,” four stand out: The state or quality of being resolute; having firm determination. In physics & chemistry, the process of separating…

More than a week has passed since the busy-ness of the Christmas season. Before the promise of a New Year recedes into the clutter and crush of our culture, let’s take a closer look at an encounter that occurred 40 days after Jesus was born. “And when the days for their purification according to the…

You have landed on this blog for at least one of several reasons: … a Twitter or Instagram post led you here … maybe our lives crossed paths somewhere in the world … SoCal • Montana • Colorado • Mississippi • the Pacific Northwest • Bangkok? … we are related … by blood or marriage…