According to several sources, the expression “hot water” to mean something more than heated water was first used over 500 years ago. No one is certain where the expression came from, but everyone can identify with the idea it conveys. The Grammarist website explains...
This past week, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Currently, there are 193 Member States, plus Vatican City and Palestine, each with a single vote on matters coming before this group, representing nearly every...
This week’s reading from our companion book begins with Keely in a courtroom. Keely is alone. Her one phone call to her younger brother reminded her she was on her own. Keely had no close friends or family willing to help her. And she was facing a judge notorious for...
Cyndi and I have several fruit trees but have yet to enjoy a fruit harvest. Healthy orchards take more care than we’ve had time to give them. Fortunately, our raspberries and blackberries are healthy and doing well. The red raspberries are best when their color is a...
As we begin our new worship series, Miracles, Jones is in jail and Andy drives to the small Florida town to pick him up. During his brief stay, Jones meets Keely. Since their encounter is brief and Jones makes little progress in breaking through Keely’s hard outer...
On the Second Sunday in September, we begin a new series titled Miracles. Our series is based, in part, on a book by Andy Andrews from his Noticer Series, titled Just Jones. In our last series, we used the first book from the Noticer Series, where Andrews introduced...
What an ending! By this I don’t mean The Noticer ends with a twist no one saw coming. Instead, the townspeople find Jones’ well-worn suitcase in the middle of the parking lot. But where is Jones? His suitcase went everywhere Jones went. So what happened to Jones? In...
Henry Warren sees the big picture. His challenge is being in all the cameos calling for his attention. Busy is an understatement for Henry. Perhaps it’s his big picture that allows him to ignore any internal voices calling telling Henry how he treats people matters....
Chapter 5, in our companion book, is about wisdom. In particular, the wisdom of choosing a life partner. Jones tells a group of young adults how they can tell a lot about a person by the “leaves” they drop. Jones uses leaf as a metaphor for clues offering insight into...
Walker Miles teetered on an edge between hope and depression. But his hope was nothing more than a chance for happiness. An elusive sense of joy was always beyond Walker’s grasp. His mind filled with worries, Walker’s first wife compared him to Eeyore, the pessimistic...