Category: Bernie’s Posts

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...

  You don’t have to talk to people very long before the list of grievances over “2020” horrors can be aired as well as inconveniences and just plain craziness. By any measure there has been an upheaval at just about every...

  This is  the Sunday when we meet Simeon and Anna. The two old people hanging around the temple when they greet Mary and Joseph and say wonderful things about the Christ child. I always wondered about Lukes need to tell us...

  I have been yammering about this for awhile in the approach to Christmas.  Here Alton Wedel said it nice.y   In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days He has...

It was in one of these that we put our manger scene.  It was glass encased down the floor.   We heard the Pastor say as he had said so many times before that God was with us as Father Son and Holy Spirit and we responded...