We are two weeks away from the Super Bowl, one of the biggest sporting events of the year, and I am having a hard time getting excited. Let’s be honest. When your favorite team is not one of the two playing in the main event, it is difficult to be enthusiastic. It is kind of like attending a wedding for two people that you don’t really know. While you may be happy for them to be sharing this moment, you do not really feel included. The NFC and AFC Championship games this week

The New Year has started off with a lot of sickness and sorrow. The viral infection that has spread throughout our congregation and community continues to plague our church family. With cold and flu-like symptoms, this upper respiratory infection hangs on like a dog to a bone. The radical temperature changes and unseasonal weather that we have been experiencing have added to the problem. It is difficult for a hand-shaking, neck-hugging bunch of Baptists to avoid spreading suc

There was a period of about 400 years between the end of the Old Testament writings and the beginning of the events recorded in the New Testament. This inter-testamental period is often referred to as “the 400 Silent Years,” because during this time we have no record of any new revelations from God to the Jewish people. It has not been quite that long since my last column, but the combination of the busy holidays and the bad weather makes it seem like a long interval of separ