Posts with the tag “1-peter”

I started watching an old “Doctor show” on Amazon Prime while I’ve been putting miles on my stationary bike. I have to put a lot of hours in each week and part of the time I will tune in to this show....  Read More

All week long folks have been talking about American Independence because of when in the week the 4th of July fell. One of the things that I really appreciated was an article that a historian wrote re...  Read More

When I look around at our world…I get worried. The price of everything has gone crazy and there seems to be no end in sight. People all over seem to have so much anger and so little joy. And I wonder ...  Read More

I got a lesson in doing the right thing years ago when I was working in a winery during the summer while in college. My job was to “throw glass on the line” all day long. They would bring pallets of e...  Read More

I was looking at a scripture for Sunday and there was a verse in 1 Peter 3 about clothing yourselves with beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is so pr...  Read More

I like hamburgers…a lot! Around here my favorite burger is at the In-N-Out drive in. To get to the closest one to my house, I have to drive about 20 minutes just to get there. The other day my oldest ...  Read More

Have you ever been a foreigner? My great-grandparents were immigrants who came through Ellis Island at the end of the 19th century. I got to go to Ellis Island, in New York, and I thought about them s...  Read More

I was reading an article where the author reminded us that one hundred years ago, the best-selling book in our country was a book on phrenology. It said one could discover his or her personality stren...  Read More

Respect. That’s a word that has taken a beating in these times. There was a time when people in general were pretty respectful of others. But today everybody is pretty much fair game for anything. And...  Read More

Corrie Ten Boom and her family were committed Christians who hid Dutch Jews in their house in Haarlem, Holland during World War II. They saved a number of individuals and families until they were betr...  Read More

I killed something this week because of neglect. I had good intentions, but I got distracted by other things and I didn’t do what I had promised myself I would do. It wasn’t a person or a pet…it was m...  Read More