by Morning Reflections | Jan 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here No one who had a church leadership role on September 16, 2001, will ever forget that day. It was the first Sunday after the 9/11 terror attacks. For five days, America had been...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1842, French philosopher Auguste Comte probably thought he was on safe ground when he predicted that humanity would never learn anything of significance about the stars. Those...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWhat language did Jesus speak?For Bible scholars, that’s always been an interesting question. We know that Judea in the first century was a tri-lingual culture. Hebrew was the “official” language of...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few years ago, a newspaper in Tacoma, Washington, noted that a local basset hound named Tattoo had gone for an evening run. That may not sound like front page material until you consider...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereYears before Stephen King was crowned king of literary horror, Shirley Jackson wrote what many readers consider the scariest tale of all. “The Lottery,” published in The New Yorker in 1948, vaulted the...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here According to the Jewish Scriptures (Deuteronomy 22:12), men were required to wear fringes along the edges of their cloaks. Traditionally, these fringes ended in four tassels of white...
