Musings

By Pastor David Holland “So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” Luke 15:19-20 (NIV) As a little...

By Rick Moore, When I was about five years old, my family checked into a hotel room while on a vacation. The sliding glass door to our room was adjacent to the swimming pool. My two older brothers and I decided to race to see who could be the first...

By Victoria Ostrosky We are an impatient people.  We want everything now.  Fast food, lightning-fast internet speed, faster computer processors.  Waiting isn’t on our list of things we want to do anymore.  We want what we want when we want it. But God, as we know full well, has no problem...

By Kirk McCarley, My son, Kyle, is a fan of Steve Harvey on the Family Feud.  He posed the question to me recently of, “if I were to be selected to appear on the show, who would be the four other family members that I would select to join me?” ...

By Sean Dietrich These aren’t my stories, but I’m going to tell them. Let’s call her Dana. Dana was going for a walk near her home. It was a dirt road. Her high-school reunion was coming up, she was getting into shape. A truck pulled beside her. He slowed down. He rolled...

By Pastor David Holland But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away,...

By Rick Moore On September 22, 1993, Amtrak experienced the deadliest crash in American history. Just north of Mobile, Alabama, the Amtrak train known as the Sunset Limited derailed in the swampland near the Mobile River. At that time, I was the owner of a video production company in West...

By Victoria Ostrosky Our daily lives are filled with appointments and birthdays we struggle to remember.  But then there are certain days we can never forget because they’re etched deeply into our hearts.  That moment a parent hears the horrifying words that shatters and remakes their lives, changing them forever. Doug...

By Kirk McCarley, In a 1994 magazine interview, actor Kevin Bacon mentioned while discussing “The River Wild,” that “he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who’s worked with them.”  Following, a lengthy newsgroup thread ran titled “Kevin Bacon is the Center of the Universe.”  That same year three...

By Pastor David Holland But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. Luke 15:31-32 The young man hated mucking out the stinking pig stalls. But he snuck some slop for himself occasionally to avoid...