Northern Crossings

I appreciated a letter from  Arie Bertsch or District President.  He prayed blessings on our worship however it might be done this week.  Then added this –   I pray this because here we are in the third week of the...

  From these and similar words and admonitions of Christ we should also learn to know the Lord Christ aright, to develop a more cordial and comforting confidence in Him, and to pay more regard to His Word than to anything...

So we had a Palm Sunday without church, and the generosity of many people that brought palms for the service was wasted.  Well not really wasted.  I still think that the thought counts and the folks who brought palms I commend. ...

This from Palm Sunday 2 years ago We tend to telescope events of the Passion of Jesus from Palm Sunday through the Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and Easter.  There are amazing things that take place all through Holy Week...

In times like these I will go a long way for some humor,  Hiding in the basement with tinfoil on my head and whimpering is not a real solution to anything and listening to baleful thoughts and predictions is an unprofitable...

There are some people who are really letting this stuff we are going through get to them.  The news is the constant fight as to who is taking it seriously and who isn’t and the appropriate opprobrium will be leveled.  As I...

  The old curmudgeon is coming out again with the sitting at home and social distancing and the constant fear mongering.  The wonderful line comes to my mind about the corona virus and the time that the networks give for...

I was happy to see that Mike Lindell, the owner of the ”My Pillow” company had re-purposed some of his factories tonight masks needed to protect from the COVID-19 virus. The advertisements for the my pillow are probably the only...

  Warning – video is pretty graphic a55444a2-c570-4f32-9ba7-fbad9d805c54   The Government of Kenya has invoked the concept of social distancing and also the idea of a National curfew.  So there is a conundrum. ...

  Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Waiting on the Lord means just that...

Julie McManus was one of our first Mary Okeyo scholarship travelers and she and her father have been tireless workers and advocates for Project 24 since she came back.  She is a teacher and her father is a retired pastor.  She...

Even as a child I recognized the difference between a payment for work, a right, and an allowance.  An allowance seemed to me, even as a child who shoveled a block of side walk for a quarter, to be a condescending action that...

I have a vivid memory of driving across the painted desert in Arizona. Dad was driving, mom was asleep in the back, and I don’t know what my brother was doing but he was along.  It would be the last of our families road trips...