Cross Thoughts

Which is to being the blog to a close. I've been doing this for years.  It's been enjoyable and have appreciated the feedback that I...

Even though I am no longer in full-time ministry, I've found myself pretty busy this Advent season.  I have the privilege of preaching a...

From a Christmas sermon from Norman Nagel (1975) The angel's message is simply what happened - a birth - and the identification of the o...

  Gloria in excelsis Deo Et in terra pax      hominbus bonae voluntaris Laudamus te Benedictimus te Adoramus te Glorificamus te Which is... ...

I've posted the following before - it comes from the biography, "Here I Stand." (page 354) Many in the congregation think to t...

Christianity, rightly understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents.  It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that...

My wife and I took two of our grandkids the the Arizona Broadway Theatre last Saturday for their morning performance of A Charlie Brown Chri...