by Derek Sanford | Nov 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has been transformed from a very married nation to a place in which married people are becoming a minority. Of people 15 and over (I know that’s a weird age, but it’s the one they use), 49% are married, and 51% are never married,...
by Bill Hunter | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
My 24-year-old daughter came home for a visit last weekend. While driving back to our house, she was traveling along one of the myriad backroads that cover this part of the United States. As is true of many parts of our country, the county I live in has a small...
by Derek Sanford | Oct 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
How the bible talks about the end of the world and how we feel about it are often miles apart. The bible says things like, ‘look forward to that day,’ and to ‘be of good cheer,’ and to ‘encourage one another with words’ about being...
by Bill Hunter | Sep 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
At one point in my church life, I was very into being a volunteer. At one point, I was a church Elder, sang in two of the musical groups, and every other Wednesday night, I did the dishes. If I had been pressed to focus on one of these ministries, my choice might...
by Bill Hunter | Aug 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
By training, I am an Academic in the Humanities. Now that means many things: First of all, I deal more with ideas and concepts than I do with things. Secondly, I was able to focus my research on a topic so narrow that I may know more about it than anyone else in the...
by Derek Sanford | Aug 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
The world is chaotic right now. It feels like a tinderbox ready to explode. We’ve become numb to a tool of the enemy that has become commonplace in our modern society: catastrophizing. Catastrophizing is thinking the worst about every bad situation. It is expected...
