Posts from April 2025

Our Sanctuary Renovations have been underway since August 2024. TIMELINE AUGUST 2024 – REMOVAL OF FURNITURE, PEWS, CARPET, & ITEMS NOT PART OF FINISHED SANCTUARY. SEPTEMBER 2024 – REMOVAL OF 8,000 SQUARE FEET OF CEILING – 1/4 PLASTER & 3/4 ACOUSTICAL TILES. OLD INSULATION WAS REMOVED FROM ENTIRE ROOM. OCTOBER 2024 – ELECTRICAL WIRING INSTALLED & INSPECTED. NOVEMBER 2024 – SPRAY FOAM INSTALLED IN ENTIRE ROOF STRUCTURE CAVITY TO PREVENT INTRUSION OF HEAT & MOISTURE, AS WELL AS TO MAINTAIN…

I cruise through a couple of news and information websites weekly. Good articles help continue my education and a variety of commentary allows me to keep up with current issues. A few sites I read point out quirky things in the church world. One particular headline caught my attention a few months back. It was nothing new, however, a video of the whole thing iced the cake. A church somewhere had decided that saying “amen” was leaving out the fairer…

God is very clear at the end of the Bible (Revelation 22) that we should not add to or take away from the written word of God. Plagues are for those who add to the Bible, while the ones who take away from the sacred word lose their heavenly reward. What do we do with the Lord’s Prayer ending, “for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever”? Look it up! You won’t find it in Matthew…

I caught my first fish on a bamboo pole cut from the back of our neighbor’s privacy screening. As fish stories go, it was a whopper. Evidence from Dad’s Kodak Instamatic (the one with a flash cube on top) proved the giant to be about the size of Mom’s cast iron frying pan. I caught him on a rusty hook baited with leftover liver from the fridge at the family lake cabin. The great-grandparents stayed over the days before our…