Northern Crossings

  Hank Aaron died recently and of course the sport crowd was in the statistics and record mode. Aaron is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His 755 career home runs broke the long-standing MLB...

    So I have been asked what I thought of the Inauguration and by some who have not liked my answers when asked political questions before.  So remember you asked. Abraham Lincoln’s Law partner William Herndon...

Jonah is on the dock for Sunday.  Strange man.  Strange story. As T.J. Carlisle has written –   By heart he has learned – with what heart he had – devotedly and meticulously the eternal words. He could recite them...

Back in the day when people wanted to start something new such as installing a new priest at the temple, or putting a new statue of Ceaser on some corner of a Roman street,  there would be pomp and circumstance and speeches....

    My life has been in some thing of a turmoil for the last week and I have been remiss in my blog posts. There are many wonderful things going on with Project 24 for instance, and some sad things going on as well....

All the saints of God, all believers, share the hope that according to the wisdom of all nations belongs to the very nature of man, because man lives by hope (e.g., Ecclesiastes 9:4) and cannot live without hope. The hope of the...

It is in times like these that we seem to lose the sense of thankfulness.  Bombarded by divisive issues we jump from one frustration to another.  I hear the constant phrase “incitement to violence” and It seems to me...

There’s an old joke that says everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. The weather up here has been very strange. Very little snow. We had the snirt Christmas and a few flurries after that.  We...

  After the events of the week, There is an old Chinese curse that says – “may you live in interesting times”. We are living in interesting times. We have seen, because of the pandemic, our inability to live the way...

      Since I was a little boy I have been taught that the gifts of the Wise Men showed what he was and what he would do.  Gold the gift for a King.  Frankincense an offering to God.  Myhrr the anointing substance...

      Cataloging our dissent into madness at times has been fun but mostly just depressing. Congress has proven itself over the last year to be worthless. We probably have the best of worlds because they...

  There is a fellow I listen to on the radio who likes to say at this time of the year that  as he checks his last year’s New Year’s resolutions, he realizes he broke all of them and seven of the 10 Commandments...

Standing on the brink of a new year desperately trying to get this one as far behind us as possible, the weighing of relative merits and demerits of the past is incumbent on thinking folks.  It is good to think about the Lord...