I was visiting with a friend this past week and we got to talking about the worst jobs we’d ever had. Mine was my first job out of high school, […]
Category: Plain Speech Messages
2025 Palm Sunday
This is my 25th Palm Sunday here at Fairfield. This past week, I read through all 25 Palm Sunday sermons I’d given, and I noticed I was giving essentially the […]
A Culture of Caring
Welcome, friends. It is, as always, a delight to be with you in this pleasant place. It was Winston Churchill who famously said, “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape […]
Things That Give Me Hope (4)
It is good to be home. I was in North Carolina last weekend, officiating at the wedding of my niece, Lauren, the daughter of my oldest brother Glenn, who is […]
Things That Give Me Hope (3) —Thank God for the Status Quo
A year after I was born, my father was hired by Johnson Wax as a salesman, visiting grocery stores across Indiana, peddling his wares, mostly Raid bug spray and Pledge […]
Things That Give Me Hope (2)
Last week, we began thinking about the things that give us hope in these challenging days, because it is far too easy to feel hopeless, so we need to think […]
Things That Give Me Hope (1)
I was thinking this week of Mr. Hoban, an elderly neighbor of ours when I was growing up on Broadway Street, there in Danville. He was a veteran of two […]
Do’s and Don’ts in a Time of Change (11)
I learned this week that a kid I knew growing up had passed away. This seems to be happening with more frequency, and I am usually saddened by the development, […]
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)
I was up at Life’s Journey this week visiting Stacey Denny’s mother, who’s in hospice there. They have a bookshelf in the lobby filled with religious books, including a book […]
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (10)
I’ve been thinking this week of my Baptist grandmother, who took it upon herself to make us fit for civilization. Fortunately, I didn’t see her often. When my father and […]