by Morning Reflections | Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Healthcare experts estimate that 80-90% of Americans are dependent on a chemical substance called trimethylxanthine. Most of us know it as caffeine. Botanists have long guessed that caffeine – which occurs naturally in the foliage of coffee trees, cacao...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
What is it like to hear a word from God?It’s safe to say that many of those who attend worship are hoping to hear something – perhaps an insight, a reminder, or a word of hope.More than a dozen years ago, those attending the 8:15 am Sunday worship service at my friend...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
During the 1950s, Americans were curiously casual about nuclear energy.A U.S. congressman proposed that two dozen atomic devices might be used to dig, quickly and easily, a brand new Panama Canal.Tourists poured into Las Vegas not just to play the roulette wheels but...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
A few years ago I got a phone call from the fraud department of the bank that supports my VISA card.“Mr. McDonald, we’d like you to confirm a couple of expenses that were recently charged to your account.” Whenever I hear those words, I always take a deep...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
“The scandal of Christianity in our day is the heresy of a five percent spirituality.”That’s the claim of Quaker devotional writer Richard Foster. What he means is that far too many followers of Jesus take a Tupperware approach to reality. They seal off 5%...
