Feb 21, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
This Wednesday, February 22, beginning in the afternoon, you may begin to see people with a dark smudge on their forehead. If you don’t know, your thought may be, “He didn’t wash his entire face.” If a person senses that you may be questioning his dirty foreword, he...
Feb 17, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
“We are more than we think we were.” Isn’t that a gripping idea: more than we think we are! This truth was solidly underscored in my mind and conviction when I read the story of French pastor Ivan Carluer, who founded a church in the Créteil neighborhood of Paris....
Feb 13, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Dominating the news these days is the story of the beating of Tyre Nichols that led to his death. Five policemen were involved in the incident and are being charged with murder. Much of the story is told in the cameras of the policemen and the public camera at the...
Feb 6, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
There are consequences of what we have done, how we have lived, and we don’t escape those consequences. I came across a marvelous expression of it in my Bible reading recently. I was reading from the Revised Standard Version, and this is what that translation...
Feb 4, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
George Santos. We have heard or read that name often if we have listened to T.V. news, or read a newspaper in the past week. His name first appeared in national news when he won a seat in U.S. Congress as a California Representative. But it soon began…charges about...
Feb 1, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
We hardly go through a week without asking, “Where is God in all of this?” It came dramatically last week when the tapes were released picturing five policemen senselessly beating a man to death. Even with the questions about police brutality, race relations, justice,...
