by Greg | Dec 16, 2014 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
In part as a personal discipline as well as a need to better organize my reflections on books I have read, I will be sharing periodic book reviews. Books connect us, frustrate us, compel us and sometimes disgust us. Thank goodness for books because they give us...
by Greg | Dec 3, 2014 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
Are you ready for Christmas? I have fond recollections from childhood of my grandmother readying for Christmas by weeks and weeks of baking, boiling and kneading her way to December 25th. The kitchen and spare bedroom of her simple house would be stacked high with...
by Greg | Nov 25, 2014 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
Peace. What an elusive word. In this season of giving thanks it can be difficult to be grateful when you are not experiencing peace. Peace. It is sometimes difficult to imagine it. Just look to Ferguson, MO. Not much peace there. Not with the Brown family who...
by Greg | Nov 19, 2014 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
Like clockwork I can look at those Maples just to the side of the church, the ones that are near the welcome center, and know that Thanksgiving is near. These trees just blaze, like flares signaling that the time of giving thanks is near. Are you good at...
by Greg | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
As far as demographic monikers go, we frequently read and hear about Baby Boomers (those born 1945-1964) and Millennials (1985-1994). Baby Boomers were at one time the largest demographic, but Millennials are a close second. Advertisers, marketers and churches have...
by Greg | Oct 23, 2014 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
It happens, doesn’t it? You walk on this earth long enough and there will be times when what you have stood upon, depended upon, slips out from under your feet. I got the call the other day from my stepmother asking me to come home. Daddy was cutting the...
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