We have reached the muggy stage of summer with long hot days, high humidity, and a daily chance of afternoon thunderstorms. I’m a big fan of thunderstorms. I very much enjoy sitting on the back deck, watching a good storm build, and then rolling through. The natural phenomena of lightning and thunder is a breath-taking
I don’t know about you, but in the midst of this pandemic and civil unrest, I am sick and tired of listening to news outlets and politicians and Monday-morning-quarterbacks spin their versions of the truth. The spinning is obvious, and they’re all doing it to advance their own agenda. So who or what are we
Early on in the pandemic shutdown, a box arrived at our house. The writing on the box made it obvious it had been sent from oversees. Our older son Reid is currently living in Hong Kong. For five years before moving to the island, he had lived on mainland China, so it certainly crossed our
Well, it happened again. The last time I took a couple of weeks off from writing, a global pandemic hit. This time I took a couple of weeks off and our country erupted into civil unrest. If those events weren’t so catastrophic, the coincidence could be considered humorous. It’s not. It’s incredibly sad. We are
Without intending to do so, it seems I’ve started a series of articles based on Matthew 9:17. In response to a confrontation Jesus had with the disciples of John the Baptist, Jesus said, “Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and
Last week I wrote about new wine based on something Jesus said in Matthew 9:17. If you didn’t have a chance to read that article, you can dig it out of your overflowing recycling bin or you can find previous editions online at http://www.webbweekly.com. This week, I would like to continue that conversation by writing
