The Manifest Church

The Manifest Church

The clouds are black and foreboding this afternoon.  Darkness is stretching its talons across the town, gripping tighter and drawing the shadows together.  Heavy, Styrofoam-like balls of snow pelt the windows and the side of the house.  It’s a good day to be inside,...
Winter’s Blanket of Rest

Winter’s Blanket of Rest

“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 Mr. Winter has arrived in Upstate New York.  Last year, he made his entrance calmly, a gradual drop in temperature and gentle snowfall.  Not this year.  This year, he has rushed...
Signs of the Times

Signs of the Times

  “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red;’ and in the morning you say ‘it will be foul weather today for the sky is red and threatening.’  Hypocrites!  You know how to discern the face of thy sky, but you cannot discern the...