Fire Side Stories

  • WARNING. Hurting and frustrated pastor ahead!

    I was spending time with a good friend recently and he asked me why I was so tired looking. I laughed and simply said “ministry.” His reply was “can’t be that hard” I had to let that sink in for a bit and even repeated those 4 words – can’t be that hard. Then he…

  • No matter what, He is still at the center of it.

    No matter what, say those three words out loud – no mater what, My God is still at the center of it all. Your God is at the center of it all. OUR God is still at the center of it all. I was reminded of this in my morning prayer and devotional time today.…

  • How will you be remembered?

    Thomas Alva Edison is remembered most for the electric light, his phonograph and his work with motion pictures. However, he also invented several devices that greatly improved the telephone. He improved several kinds of machines called generators that produced electricity. He improved batteries that hold electricity. Bing Crosby is one of America’s most popular entertainers of all time. In 1931, Crosby launched his…

  • Think before you VOTE

    We are 74 days out to voting for a new president. My question isn’t who will it be? My question is, will America even make it until then? Okay, maybe that is a stretch, Americans are fighters, hero’s and survivors. We have seen a lot as young country. Yes, a young country. The United States…

  • We still have PURPOSE

    155 days ago things got very real. Covid-19 had been around since January and then it would seem all at once we would have to make changes every where, including church. We shut our doors 155 days ago in the beginning of this pandemic. We would once again return July 12th to a very different…

  • Babbling

    I have titled this entry “babbling.” The reason is that I have a lot of thoughts bouncing around in my head and wanted to get some of them out to the blog. Helps me clear my head a bit and I might come back and re-visit some of this in a more coherent way. So…

  • It’s all in the Numbers

    These days everyone seems to be talking about numbers. The number of days in quarantine, the number of people tested for Covid-19, the number of deaths due to Covid-19, the number of days school has been out and many more surrounding the 2020 pandemic! I want to talk about numbers too. Lets start with in…

  • Author of TRUTH vs. author of confusion

    Aliens started this virus, no China did. Wait, maybe it came from an animal, yeah that’s it, it came from a bat. Scientists in S. Korea started it and were going to launch a missile at the United States, but at the last minute they started with China. Russians, they had to have something to…

  • Fire Alarms, Fire Trucks and Jesus

    It’s 3:45 in the morning and I am deep asleep and then the phone vibrates. I look at it and see that is our alarm monitoring company for our church. “Hello? Is this Dennis? Yes. We have a fire alarm going off at your church and fire and police are in route.” Now this isn’t…

  • Frustrations

    The governor of Illinois just put the entire state under “shelter in place” due to COVID-19. Very interesting times we now live in. This a pandemic virus, meaning this virus is world-wide and is in very large numbers affecting people, especially the older populations – to the point of death. Italy and Spain are on…