First Presbyterian Church of Valparaiso

While we are still finishing the leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner, we entered the season of Advent this past Sunday. Advent is a time...

I freely admit it! I love leftovers! Whenever I'm home and hunger calls or I'm trying to put together a bag lunch to take to the...

The day before Thanksgiving. And all through the house... the sun streams through the windows, and the trees have revealed their skeletal...

Lately, I keep running across the word "patience." Does this ever happen to you? A word or an idea seems to be everywhere - in your...

Daylight Savings Time is over... finally. So... it is no longer CDT but now CST. For me being an early riser, now when I leave the...

Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that...

As I was driving into Chicago earlier this week for my seminary classes, I marveled at the beautiful aura of autumn that we are blessed...

A few weeks ago, I stood in awe as a hot mid-day sun in Southern Illinois became little more than a tiny sliver before being completely...

One of the great contemporary Christian writers is Juan Carlos Ortiz. He is a preacher with an interesting and rather bombastic style. ...

"The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light." IN ONE RESPECT if in no other this metaphor of Isaiah's is a very relevant...