First Presbyterian Church of Valparaiso

"Daddy, do cats go to Heaven?" A question that was uttered the most in my house this past week. We have recently lost our family cat...

For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 Finally. The daffodils have dared to open their faces to...

As you know, my birth did not go as well as had been hoped. There were complications and my infant brain was deprived of oxygen while I...

Though you might not be able to tell by looking outside (more blasted snow today!), Easter has once again come and gone. Pastors have...

As some of you are likely aware, there is a new faith based movie in the theaters titled, I Can Only Imagine, based on the life story of...

My last blog reminded us of Punxsutawney Phil's prognostication of SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER. While he had been only a 42% correct...

Gandalf: "Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small...

As an adolescent, I spent many summer hours wandering the woodlands bordering the fields and rolling grasslands of our family farm in...

Anger, it seems, has spread like a virus. Its effects can be heard from the bombed out buildings in Syria, to the classrooms in Florida,...

The forty day period of Lent is traditionally a time when we strengthen our spiritual lives so that we are more able to experience the...