Spring is a time of new life. The trees bud out; the grass starts to grow; the flowers bloom. New life means new work. Plants need to be...

Years ago, when we still did charge conference at individual churches, we were asked to set goals for the coming year. If we were...

I have been thinking about New Year’s resolutions. My tennis coach told us to change a losing strategy. If something isn’t working, do...

We started a fire in the fireplace on a cold night recently. As the logs burned down, one piece of wood fell away from the heart of the...

I read a story about a 62-year old man in England who was diagnosed with cancer and only had one year to live. He began spending all his...

A small group of five or six families gathered in New York before the Revolutionary war wanting to start the first Methodist chapel in...

I have been listening to an audio book by Victor Frankl called “Yes to Life.” You may remember that Frankl was a psychologist who...

There has been a lot of talk in the churches in the area about leaving the United Methodist Church. That will not be me. I have been...

Summer time is a good time for a story: There was an tribe that found it was required to move their village. The tribal leaders decided...