Pastor Rick Sams: Isaiah can offer solution to the groundhog daze
Pastor Rick Sams
Special to The Alliance Review
The celebrity groundhog saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of winter. You were in need of more bad news, right?
On the bright side, Buckeye Chuck, Ohio s favorite groundhog prognosticator, didn t see his shadow, so he (or his handlers, really) predicted an early spring!
In the classic movie, “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray s character Phil lives and re-lives the same day over and over, always awakening to Sonny & Cher s “I Got You Babe” on his clock-radio. He doubts this endless cycle will ever be broken.
Pastor Rick Sams: Resolve to make your tombstone messages worthwhile
Pastor Rick Sams
One of the unusual New York Times bestsellers is Six Word Memoirs, by Larry Smith.
He challenges readers to write their own epitaphs or memorials, and be insightful and inspiring, but also brief. His most famous entry: “Baby Shoes. For Sale. Never Worn.” Ernest Hemingway.
As we reflect on New Year’s resolutions we may have made, our hope was they would empower us to live the lives that were designed by our Creator. We can’t help but remember, with some regret, resolutions past and unfulfilled. Brevity may help us actually succeed on our goals for the coming year, if they were meaningful, measurable and measured. Start with the legacies you want to leave when you’re gone. Imagine what you’d like etched on your tombstone Then consider the steps required this year to reach that distant destination (you hope).
Pastor Rick Sams: Christmas connections in a crazy COVID climate
Pastor Rick Sams
Special to The Alliance Review
How will you gather with your family this Christmas? That’s the biggest question facing families and friends this Christmas. Technology has come to the rescue of our ability to relate as families, as businesses and schools.
But … Zoom fatigue is real. And tech execs know how smart phones work for us and work on us. The people who are closest often suggest the most caution.
So many of them have decided they don’t want their own children anywhere near these devices, says Athena Chavarria, who worked as an executive for a tech company. Many CEOs of computer and communication companies have severely limited their own kids’ screen time of any kind video games, social media, TV, internet surfing, etc.