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Home Depot Leadership: There is a large “chain” of stores in America that specializes in the sale of tools for maintaining and improving the home and garden. It is called the Home Depot. At any of its outlets you can find gardening equipment, paint, appliances and appliance repair items, fertilizer, plants, etc.  In other words,…

What were we coming home to? My family recently moved some 500 KM to Sugar Land, Texas, less than an hour from where I was born. Many of my relatives still live in this area. El Campo, Texas is a small farming and ranching community that is rich in its Czech heritage. I remember Czech…

Early in our relationship, she shared a poem she had recently penned. The poem began, “The Lord is my data processor.” The poem was a take-off on the 23d Psalm, the Shepherd’s Psalm. The time was in the 1970s and computers were beginning to make their presence known. While the poem has been lost over…

Making life choices is a big responsibility. Recently, my 12-year-old granddaughter came to visit her Grandpa.  We are always delighted when she or either of her two siblings can be with us.  As we enjoyed our time together, she shared how another adult lectured her on how unscriptural it is to get a tattoo.  She said…

I recently experienced diversity. This past week my wife and I completed the purchase of a  new home in one of the most “diverse” areas of the United States, Sugarland Texas. As we began to meet neighbors and sense the area, I was overwhelmed by how different but similar we, the community, are. For example,…

On a Week in Europe: I am writing from an airplane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, heading home after eight days in England and Norway.  The week has been abundant in its spiritual content.  Here are some of my observations. It had been several decades since I visited Norway. Everywhere I went, both there and…

Have you ever asked, “Where is God in all this?” Life has its seasons.  For me, this is a season of transition and turmoil.  You see, my family is in the process of moving from East Texas to where two of our children are, some 300 KM away. We have been feverishly searching for a…

There are many broken people in this broken world. I had the privilege this past week of attending an annual benefit luncheon for the Highway 80 Rescue Mission in Tyler, Texas.  This organization is dedicated to caring for the homeless, the“street people” in East Texas.  The keynote speaker was Elisa Morgan who served as President…

Do you see the world through a gospel lens? “Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”…

The Bible tells we are looking into the mirror dimly. “For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, then we shall see face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”  (I Corinthians 13:12)   This verse from the “love chapter” of…