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3.16.12

Easter Sunday concludes our ministry at Eastminster. Many of you have shared your hospitality with us. It has been an honor to be in your homes. The food has been wonderful. I am going on a diet starting mid – April, 2012! Linda and I have also enjoyed sharing our Old Town hospitality with many of you.

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3.1.12

McDonald's operates 1,400 stores in China. Pizza Hut has 626 outlets there. KFC is big in Asia. Its popularity in China has pushed its offerings to 3,700 fast food restaurants.

Are these chains content with their market in China? Absolutely not! China's dining landscape is changing rapidly and becoming more competitive. Television advertising for fast food in Asia continues to receive ever-expanding investment.  [more] »

2.16.12

Whenever I get to ski in the Rockies, I read Psalm 8: "When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?"  [more] »

Lent has always been characterized as a season for honing discipleship. Relinquishment has been its trademark. What did you give up for Lent?

Giving up something for Lent leaves me cold. The giving up part gets so dramatized that whatever there is to learn from Lent is eclipsed in the process.  [more] »

1.19.12

The Dean of the Harvard Business School is Nitin Nohria. He recently made ethics the centerpiece of Harvard's curriculum overhaul. He was asked about business leaders' failure to embrace a moral compass. His response was, "The general belief about moral and character development is that this is something we learned at home, as adolescents. I actually think the formation of character is a lifelong process."  [more] »

1.4.12

This Sunday, January 8, is Epiphany Sunday. What does that mean? It represents the sudden shining of divine light in the human darkness. The star in the East drove the magician kings to the light. They chose not to stay stuck where they were.

They came bearing gifts for the Christ child: gold, frankincense and myrrh. Gold was fit for a king. Frankincense represented the priesthood of Christ and myrrh the embalming source for the One who would die to save us from our sins.  [more] »