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Fall is the season of change.  The leaves change from their summer green to red, brown, yellow, purple, and every shade in between.  The leaves have already begun dropping from the trees as the trees are getting ready for fall and then winter.   It’s an awesome transformation, especially in Maryland as we have so many […]

I received an email from the brother of my lifelong and late friend Jeff Trollinger today.  Robert asked me to forward a tribute he had put together in honor of Jeff to friends Jeff and I had grown up playing ball with and sharing as school mates. Robert’s tribute would be a bit difficult to

Friends are indeed like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.  I’ve never been successful at finding four-leaf clovers, but I’ve sure been blessed with having good friends in my life. Sometimes I take time to consciously recall my good friends that the Lord has blessed me with.  It’s never hard to

Hard times come into all of our lives.  They aren’t wanted.  They challenge us at our deepest levels of being and can easily send us into a spiral of bad things.  Hard times often hit us unexpectedly and leave us reeling.  We all know of such times.  I have been in one for quite a

Sweet friendships refresh the soul and awaken our hearts with joy, for good friends are like the anointing oil that yields the fragrant incense of God’s presence.  Proverbs 27:9 TPT   I just recently went to North Carolina to conduct the Memorial Service for a long-time friend and former church member who had passed away

“A new pastor in a small Midwestern town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first service.  The following Sunday, the church was all but empty.  Accordingly, the pastor placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that because the church was dead,

One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes was a story in which three men, having discovered a time machine, successfully stole millions of dollars of gold and sent it forward into the future.  They then sent themselves into the same future to secure the gold and be rich beyond their wildest dreams.  The project went

A student needed medical care and a place to call home.  His teachers adopted him. The story is so inspiring it reminds me of the power we all have to make a difference in someone else’s life and to set an example for others to follow.  We all have the power! A first-grade teacher, Jenna

The last several years have brought huge changes in the life of churches all across America and across all  denominations, sizes and types of churches. The effects of the Covid Pandemic have been huge and disastrous on churches. We’ve all grown smaller with far fewer people actually attending worship and/or participating in worship services and

So, it’s a brand-new year. What is the year is going to bring to us? Do we  know what the new year will bring? Not me, that’s for sure. I don’t know  for sure, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “not you, either.” Certainly not all the pundits that come