April 19, 2014
We live in a sad world. It becomes even sadder when we lose a loved one or meet with some disappointments, even devastation. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Outside I laugh; inside I never laugh; the world is too sad” (Wa.186).…
April 14, 2014
The Book of Revelation 21:5 states, “Behold I make all things new!” Christians enter this new world here on earth. It is when we become “a new creation in Christ” (II Cor. 5:17). Prayer keeps the door open to that…
April 9, 2014
At Gethsemane, Jesus’ spirit was at the bottom of his earthly life. He said to Peter, James and John, “My soul is deeply troubled with sorrow to the point of wanting to die. Stay here and keep watch with me.”…
April 4, 2014
My wife and I hoped to visit Vienna. We did three years ago and we still marvel at its splendor. It was Mecca for us. In the midst of all that history and glamour, we strolled along and found ourselves…
March 31, 2014
Daniel A. Kolke Sr. was born to Dutch-German parents in Eastern Poland that once belonged to Russia and now to the Ukraine, eighty-four years ago. During World War I, Dan’s parents were exiled to Siberia while grandfather and mother’s brother…
March 30, 2014
The self has not been treated fairly. I am as guilty as everyone else that uses Paul’s negative description of men and women. Of course, Paul used that approach to make his listeners aware of their need for a Savior.…
March 25, 2014
The idea of returning a favor is as old as the hills. It is like the hub of a wheel on an axle turning in a circle. All of our relationships in conducts depend on treating and doing to others…
March 20, 2014
I was twenty-one when I left home to live and travel on my own. I put six thousand miles between my folks and myself, before airplanes shrunk the planet. It took seven days on an ocean liner and four more…
March 16, 2014
I do not remember word for word the first prayers that my mother and grandmother taught me in German. It had something to do with me being small and that my little heart needed cleaning before Jesus could live in…
March 15, 2014
Prayers are clouded in mystery. Some are answered and some are not. Who is directing and even filtering my prayers? Obviously, not all of them appear to reach God. What did Jesus actually mean when he said, “And I will…