When our family gathers for Thanksgiving, you can be sure there will be a feast! For years, Laura and I along with Ben would go to...

Greetings friends, This Sunday we worship God and recognize a special day in the Christian calendar: The Reign of Christ or Christ the...

Hi friends Earlier this week with my Zoom small group Along the Way with Pastor Paul, we studied the miracle of Jesus and the Feeding of...

... we live into our faithfulness and God provides the fruitfulness... in our lives, in our relationships, in our ministries, in all that...

I like to follow the Facebook Group called Maine Fall Foliage. Recent photos shared in that social media group indicate that the leaf...

A few years ago, one of my friends in a congregation captured some of the words of one of my sermons and wrote them down in this graphic....

For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II provided the British Commonwealth with what it needed most - stability. With the longest tenure as...

Hi friends, Sunday mornings at Manchaca UMC during the month of September, Pastor Paul will be at the Coffee Cafe area ready to Welcome...

One of my favorite memories of an experience of God’s presence and God’s Creation glory is captured in this photograph. It was a family...

In the Pecos Wilderness east of Santa Fe, New Mexico there is a very special place. I have probably written numerous posts before about...

You may be wondering what the new lead pastor at Manchaca UMC is reading? In addition to several spiritual formation and spiritual...

Both of my grandsons enjoy building things with Lego blocks. My younger grandson, however, does not like his Lego towers to fall down. He...

Isadore Rabi is one of many great intellectuals to have come from the Jewish faith. He won a Nobel Prize in physics. He later attributed...

Christmas is a time for peace. The angels sang of ‘peace on earth’ to the shepherds while the prophet Isaiah called the coming Messiah...

"Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you." Zechariah 9:12 This...

With my previous two articles on hope as waiting on a prison door to open and hope as singing the tune even you don’t know and can’t...

This week I listened to a podcast about hope featuring the brilliant Yale theologian, Miroslav Volf. Not surprisingly he referenced...

While Diana Butler Bass was working on her book, Grateful, her husband gave her a purple baseball cap which said, “Make America Grateful...

On Saturday May 24, 1738, in an evening prayer meeting on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley felt his heart “strangely warmed.” Had...

Diana Butler Bass in her excellent book Grateful observes that our nation with its division and many social problems looks like a...