Church Life

Zero Year

January 2, 2020 Herb 4
This new year of 2020 is filled with numbers ending in zero for me and my family. Several significant personal events are coming up this year. Twenty years ago I survived the awful calamity of the infamous “Y2K Bug.” This year on Continue Reading[...]

Merry Xmas!

December 25, 2019 Herb 2
Wait! Wait! Back! Put the torches down! Ouch! Watch out with those pitch forks! They’re pointy! Stop! Let me explain! Okay. So. (phew!) Here’s the deal. The X in Xmas has been there since the year 1021 AD. Actually, before that, but Continue Reading[...]

Church Bulletins

December 22, 2019 Herb 1
From the archives, the note attached said these were real bloopers that appeared in Summer, 2007, from various sources. Since at least one of my readers, and possibly more, does this kind of work, perhaps a word to the wise is sufficient. Continue Reading[...]

Dead Drunk

November 12, 2019 Herb 2
I wrote the original piece in ’05 when the thing happened. I found the re-post I did in ’08. When I saw the title in the archives I re-read and recalled the whole sad, sickening thing. My question is still valid. Why Continue Reading[...]

How Many?

November 8, 2019 Herb 2
I received my orders to be stationed at Fort Carson, CO, in February of 1988 and moved my family out here by March of ’88. We were backslidden heathens when we got here. Even though we had both been taught the right Continue Reading[...]

Had A Procedure

November 2, 2019 Herb 2
Not going into details but some procedures, no matter how routine, take a lot out of you. But I passed and don’t have to do it again for another ten years, so that’s cool. Where’d She Go? The ninety-five year old woman Continue Reading[...]

Commas Save Lives

October 22, 2019 Herb 5
Of all the punctuation marks, the comma has the most rules and really, I’m not sure if I’m qualified to talk about them all. A lot of times I just go by instinct and whatever sounds right to my ear at the Continue Reading[...]

Accountability

October 6, 2019 Herb 4
A few years ago I started to try to challenge some of our young people to read the Bible through in a year with varying success. Some really took up the challenge and did it that first year. A couple of them Continue Reading[...]

Rich Daddy

October 3, 2019 Herb 2
The rich young dad walked around the house with his tape measure, preparing for the work he wanted to get done. He only had a certain amount of time from the beginning to the end of the project and it had to Continue Reading[...]

How To Act

September 14, 2019 Herb 2
Still rebuilding but I also have to maintain my (25 days, so far) streak! Go me! The Good Book, the real one, the Bible, is full of all kinds of awesomeness but one of the things it really does well is to Continue Reading[...]

KJV Or NIV

September 9, 2019 Herb 5
I think the version of the Bible you read and memorize is important. For most of the important doctrines of the Bible, One God, Salvation, Separated Living, I think you can show the basics in any version but when you get down Continue Reading[...]

What Do You Represent?

September 2, 2019 Herb 4
Life is full of symbols and representations. My work uniform represents something. People see it and form ideas, right or wrong, about me based on what they have seen or been exposed to previously. I have always been conscious of this whenever Continue Reading[...]