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I recently submitted an Easter article to The Journal that was mistakenly printed early in last week’s edition – and with the incorrect title. When I emailed editor Brandon Cline about it, he apologized and offered to reprint it in this edition along with the correct title. I suggested rather that I submit a new article. He agreed with that ideal, and so here’s my Easter article version 2.0. As I sat down to write another article, I thought how writing a new version is just like Easter itself, for God is into new versi...
One of the most famous – or infamous – sermons in American history was preached in 1741 by a Massachusetts minister named Jonathan Edwards. The title was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” It was the quintessential “fire and brimstone” type sermon in which judgment and hell are stressed. As we observe Easter this Sunday, I think it is the time we can celebrate God’s love. For it was God’s love that was the motivation for his sending Jesus into the world, as we are told in the well-known Bible verse: “For God so lov...
Thanksgiving is a wonderful American holiday. But as we celebrate it in 2018, we do so as a deeply divided country. This has been very evident with the recent midterm elections. Although the two main political parties seem to be drawing further and further apart in their visions of what the future of the United States of America should look like, it is sometimes pointed out that what unites us far surpasses what divides us. I believe this is true, but what can be done to reverse the widening chasm of what continues to tear...
Lind Calvary Assembly of God This Sunday is Easter. It’s also April Fools’ Day. I couldn’t remember when these two ever coincided, but then I found out why. The last time Easter fell on April 1 was in 1956, which happened before I was born. As we observe these two simultaneously, it draws an obvious contrast. April Fools’ Day is a light-hearted time of playing practical jokes on family and friends, whereas Easter deals with the sober implication for all humanity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. But even wi...
Last month I had the difficult experience of saying goodbye to a good friend who was part of my life for 11 years. That friend was my dog Copper. Our family adopted her from the Humane Society in Moses Lake back in 2003. She was a golden retriever/chow mix, and her name fittingly came from her coat color. Over the years she was usually my constant companion, whether on walks around town, during days at the church, or during my work at the WSU Lind Dryland Research Station where she loved having the run of the world. The day...
Lind Assembly of God Church About 15-20 years ago, when many things in our society were going digital, it became common to label them with the letter “e,” for example e-mail, e-business, e-book, and e-banking (“e” of course standing for “electronic”). Starting with the iMac in 1998, the company Apple has used the letter “i” to market products that we’ve all become very familiar with, such as the iPhone, iPod, iPad and iTunes. Originally, the “i” meant “internet,” but it has come to represent other words like intelligent, i...