Trees are awesome!   Forests in the mountains. Palms along the beach. Mangroves in the islands. Branches you can reach. Orchards filled with goodness. Redwoods thick and tall.  Leafy canopies of green. Colors in the Fall.   It’s hard to imagine a world without trees. There are over 60,000 known species and some can live…

When did Jesus die? Can we say for sure when it happened? While the Bible provides a lot of insight into the events around Jesus death, it’s not like the Gospel writers were writing a medical drama where a doctor dramatically calls a time of death. We have to remember that the writers of the…

What is Lent?    Lent is a forty day period of fasting, prayer, and meditation that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter. You may be thinking that that it seems like that would be longer than forty days, and that’s because Christians traditionally have not fasted on Sundays, so that forty period begins…

Bible Passages about the Resurrection  For people who follow Jesus, Easter is more than just a fun time to gather with family and friends. For Christians, Easter is the ultimate celebration of life! We celebrate Easter because it marks the day that Jesus rose from the dead – or resurrected. For followers of Jesus, this…

In 1990, country musician Garth Brooks sang a song that has always been a bit of a mystery to me. The title of the song is “Unanswered Prayers.” Here is just a sampling of the lyrics below. If you want to listen along, click here. Just the other night, at a hometown football game, My…