Category: Holidays

Easter time is filled with joyous sounds of celebration and life: lambs bleating, choirs singing, the crack of a baseball bat, rain against windowpanes, birds chirping, someone sharing the gospel and so much more!  Let your imagination hear! The kaleidoscope of events surrounding Christ’s death and resurrection was accompanied by many different sounds. Most of…

What does Easter smell like? Close your eyes and think of as many spring fragrances as you can. Did you smell fresh flowers, orange blossoms, rain on the desert or pavement (Petrichor), newly cut grass? Even breezes have a smell. What do you suppose Jesus smelled? What fragrances were at the first Easter? The spices…

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Ps. 90:12 What does it mean to number our days? It’s not the ability to count how many days we have lived or to predict how many days we have left. Numbering our days means realizing the brevity of life. It…

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. On this day many people put on dark clothes as a sign of mourning for the sacrificial death of Jesus. Some folks continue this until Easter Sunday. Also, people go to church where their foreheads are marked with ashes in the sign of the cross in memory…

Traditions are the things we do all the time and eventually pass on to the next generation. They can be good or bad, ruts or memorials, fun routines or boring rituals. Sometimes we do things in a certain way for do long that we forget the reason and the meaning for doing it. What are…

This is from a devotional I wrote in 1991 for my junior high students at First Baptist of Scottsdale: Lent is the old name for spring; it means that time of year when the days lengthen. It now is the traditional time of repentance, self-examination, and fasting lasting for forty days and leading to Resurrection…

This year’s resolution: I am going to try to save some memories and make some memories. What I mean is that while I spend a lot of time remembering and living in my memories, I have not spent much time making new memories to save. I have spent a lot of time saving up my…