After many years living in and covering Washington, there is one overriding principle I have learned: If you don’t trust politicians you will never be disappointed.

The first time Christ came into the world, he came in humility and in the weakness of our nature.

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 146. These final psalms supply us with the substance of the praise that we will be giving to God forever.

Mary Evelyn (Cleugh) Hand, 85, of Madison passed away peacefully of natural causes on May 25, 2025. 

The Scripture compares the love relationship of Christ and his redeemed people to a bridegroom and his bride.

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 145. This is the last of the psalms of David.

While contemplating the horror of two young and soon to be engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting “free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza,” outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week, I recalled the opening line to a song from the old off-Broadway musical “The Fantasticks” – “You wonder how these things begin.” That song speaks to the love between a boy and a girl.

When we consider the everyday digital experiences we rely on today – streaming shows, engaging in video meetings, or securely backing up our photos and important files, the digital world runs on data stored in the cloud, and soon that cloud will run through AWS data centers right here in Madison County.

C.S. Lewis once said that joy is the serious business of heaven. Joy is not a mere happiness, but a profound, piercing longing that is beyond the world and found in God alone.

If you have your Bible with you, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 144. It’s a royal psalm; a psalm of David.

The massive cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline, which is only now being revealed by certain media types who were part of it, reminds me of a similar event more than a century ago.

In Revelation chapter 17, Babylon is pictured as a glamourous woman who is a harlot holding a cup full of abominations. Babylon is God’s way of depicting the world at its peak regarding allurements to sinful mankind.

If you have your Bible, turn with me to Psalm 143. This psalm is the last of what the church has called the penitential psalms.

In case anyone was wondering, Joe Biden is every bit as unimpressive out of office as he was in it.

Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in “Coriolanus” and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was “Fiorello!”, a 1959 musical about New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

We will return to our study in Revelation next week. This week, in John 20:19-23, we are considering the value of salvation. Who can put a value on salvation?

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 142. This psalm is what is called a complaint or an individual lament, which means that it is a poem about a distressing situation which a believer has encountered, and in that poem, the believer is offering a prayer, a plea, a help to God with no inhibition.

Last week, President Trump announced the establishment of a White House Faith Office. Its purpose, as described in a White House announcement, is to “…empower faith-based entities,

President Trump downplayed potentially empty store shelves at his recent cabinet meeting. 

In the book of Acts, the early Christians were called “people of the Way,” because Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.”