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John 15:13-14 (NET) - No one has greater love than this - that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.

I have often heard people quote verse thirteen.

Yet many people do not fully comprehend it.

That is why I chose to include verse fourteen as well.

To put things in proper context we must look at the surrounding text and determine to whom Jesus was speaking.

In this particular case,…

There are two places along my daily commute that are more risky than the remainder of my drive,

The first is on my way to work just a few miles from my destination.

At this particular point, the two lane highway on which I travel is built upon an overpass.

At the end of the overpass, a third lane opens up that allows drivers to make a left hand turn.

Problems arise when too many cars wish to make this left hand turn and vehicles are forced to stop on the overpass…

Technology is a marvelous thing.

It has allowed me to connect with an ever widening array of people from different parts of the world.

One of its benefits that I have enjoyed the most is connecting with people who have the same interests that I have.

In fact, I have made many friends who enjoy the same hobby that I  enjoy.

Most of them I will never have the pleasure of meeting face to face in this world.

One of the things I never hide in my interactions is…

Isaiah 55:11 (NET) - In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.

I listen to a Christian radio station while I commute.

This station has, as part of its evening programming lineup, messages recorded by a minister who teaches the Bible consecutively from Genesis through Revelation.

His teaching style is relaxed and he constantly refers to…

Someone once said that the only constant in the universe is change.

I am forced to agree with that, at least to a point.

I recently drove past the location where my father’s place of business once stood.

My father died several decades ago and where his business once stood there is now an empty lot.

My father repaired televisions and radios but even those forms of communication have changed.

Vacuum tubes have been replaced by transistors and computer…

John 14:6 (NET) - Jesus replied, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

The Christmas Program our church presented was a resounding success.

I am not just saying that because I was in it.

My performance, if one were to venture to call it that, was hardly a performance.

Anna, an extremely talented lady in my church family, writes the Christmas Program for us every year.

Her theme…