400 Entries I’ve been blogging for almost 20 months now and today the totals on my blog dashboard went over 400 entries. Half of them are posts and the rest are fairly…
The Old Welsh Church
Timber-framed Country Churches Did you ever drive by one of those little white timber frame country churches surrounded by cemetery and wonder what it looked like inside? My father-in-law used to pastor…
A Thoughtful Gift
People who know me know that I like chocolate; it seems that the older I get the more I like chocolate. So when Keely and Mark returned from their recent vacation,…
August Messages Planned
During my days off in the Adirondacks I had a chance to read the book Starting Your Best Life Now, a condensation of Joel Osteen’s best-selling book, Your Best Life Now. I…
Visiting a Vanderbilt Home
I knew that the most opulent homes of late nineteenth century in America were built by the Vanderbilt’s, tycoons of the NY Central Railroad. I did not realize how many homes…
Adirondack Vacation Days
We were able to carry on our almost annual tradition of spending a few days inside the famous Blue Line, Adirondack State Park, last weekend. This year it was at our…
Taking time to celebrate
When I was a young pastor, I didn’t understand the importance of celebration. I guess I must have ignored the fact that the OT has a regular schedule of feasts for the…
A surprisingly effective way to mark in your Bible in color
Write in your Bible I am always encouraging people to personalize their own Bibles by marking verses that have special meaning for them. Most people who do this soon want to categorize…
Cooperstown Farmers’ Museum
Fun for children but little antique farm equipment It was a fun stop, our late afternoon visit to the Cooperstown Farmers’ Museum. To us as adults looking at what had been collected and…
Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooperstown visit I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, but as is often the case, I’m having difficulty making a clean break. Worked today and yesterday, but Tuesday we took off…