On Eagle’s Wings
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »While out on the back roads of Northeast Iowa taking pictures today I spotted a bald eagle sailing overhead. I quickly snapped a picture. He was at quite a distance so I've had to zoom in and crop the picture, ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The Story of Our Life
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We each write the story of our lives. Some of the details of our story were given to us -- where we were born, to whom we were born, and our genetic make-up that affects everything from our looks to our ...
Waiting for Summer
Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »While taking a morning walk in Iowa (we're on vacation this week) I came upon this siderake in the snow. A siderake (for those not familiar with farming techniques) takes a swath of newly mown hay and puts it in ...
Cosmic Christ in the Shadow of His Cross
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Photo copyright 2007 by David J. Claassen
Herd Instincts or Holy Insights?
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Preparing the Christmas Eve message is more of a challenge than the average weekend message. The reasons? First, it's such an amazing theme, God come to earth in human form, that it's hard to address the subject adequately. Then also ...
How to View Ourselves
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized | No Comments »What do we see when we look in the mirror? Disappointment, for one thing! Few of us are completely happy with who looks back at us! How should we view ourselves? How can we develop a proper view of ourselves? First, ...
When the “Odds” Don’t Matter!
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in Theology, Uncategorized | No Comments »Oswald, born in 1874, turned his life over to Christ as a teenager under the ministry of the great Charles Spurgeon. He would later marry a court stenographer named Gertrude. Oswald spent his short life speaking and teaching about God. ...
Random Wreck of Frustration
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I was driving home from studying my sermon at Barnes & Noble last Saturday. Harvest Lane in Toledo was slippery with the newly fallen snow. I was minding my own business, when a full-sized van, unable to stop, slid through ...
Quote to Reflect On
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Quote to Reflect On | No Comments »"We must be still and still moving." T. S. Eliot
