From the Desk of Loren Abraham This week in the annual cycle of Torah Study, we are reading from Parashat Pinchas (English: Phinehas) -...

Do you ever feel like God is disappointed in you? Many of us have. Maybe you do right now. What is disappointment and where does it come...

After many years of pastoral ministry, one of the most common questions I hear is, “How can I hear God’s voice?” I struggled with that...

Facebook can be a pain in the tuchus. What’s a tuchus? Read for yourself. When you look at the bottom of the definition, you see that...

It’s one thing to move to a new home across neighborhoods or towns or within a state. Moving across the nation from Minnesota to Florida?...

I gotta admit, I’m mildly terrified. Jeanne and I have sold our home in Minnesota! In just three days we had 100+ showings, received 27...

“This world is not my home, I’m only passing through…” So goes the old Gospel hymn. Boy, did it ever take me a long time to even try...

I came across a perfectly inspiring article the other day. “Perfect Christians Wear Me Out” by Robert Schumacher (Source) Here’s part of...

There. I did it. I finally cleaned out my file cabinets. “Big deal,” you say? As a matter of fact, it was. When I finished shredding my...

I have a love/hate relationship with commercials. Some loathsome commercials make me want to (in my second son’s verbiage) “gouge my...

A blank page. What to write? Starting a new post seems intimidating, and yet… Imagine the possibilities! How many great works began as a...

“What a maroon!” That one-liner by Bugs Bunny always makes me chuckle. “Heh-heh, what a maroon!” (And yes, you just read that in his...

It took me four hours to get my new phone. FOUR HOURS! I’ll spare you the gory details. Suffice to say, since I haven’t looked at new...

I’m really torn. On one hand, we’re told that we must all mask up, hunker down, avoid all people by at least 6 feet (or completely… now...

“Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the fairest one of all?” Memorable words from a memorable villain! The irony is that the Queen in Snow...

I’m on vacation! No, I’m not working while on vacation, ‘cause it’s fun to write. This time I decided to drive rather than fly. It’s...

There is so much to write about and nothing to write about. I have to be honest. In 90 minutes I hit the deadline for submitting an...

I have to stop reading so much news. I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is grab my tablet, go through my daily Bible...

My friend is dying. I hadn’t seen him for a while. I get notices from his Caring Bridge online journal of his struggle with cancer. A...

Did I have a lot of fun last week or what? I’m having new gutters installed on my house! To save money, I opted to tear off the old...

I was driving to my podcast recording session last Friday (July 24) and I decided to open my spiritual ears to listen to the Lord. Yes,...

Some people are looking at the coronavirus outbreak, the massive locust plagues across Africa and Asia, and the world-wide upheaval in...

We are living in a tumultuous time in our nation’s history. It is a time where personal allegiances are being called into question. This...