John 6:16-21 {Prayer}             Back in 2017, a newspaper reporter in Galveston, Texas, published a story about Chirpy the parakeet.  One minute Chirpy was peacefully perched in his cage and singing a song.  The next minute, he was sucked in, washed up, and blown over!             Let me explain.  It all began when Chirpy’s owner…

John 6:1-15 {Prayer}             As a kid I remember watching TV when, out of the blue, an announcer would break in with these words … “This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test.”  Then, for what seemed like forever, there would be that loud, ear drum piercing sound.  Somewhat…

John 5:1-17 {Prayer}             Johnny Lechner is finally moving on.  Actually, the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater forced Johnny Lechner to move on.  You probably know someone who extended a 4-year college program into 7 or 8 years, but Johnny went beyond that.  Johnny had been working on a 4-year degree for 12 years.  Yes,…

John 4:46-54 {Prayer}             Team Hoyt consists of a father and a son.  Together, Dick and Rick Hoyt race.  And they race a lot.  They have completed 64 marathons, 206 triathlons, 6 Ironman triathlons and 204 10K runs.  Since 1975, these two have crossed over 1,000 finish lines.  They’ve even crossed the United States.            …

John 2:1-11 {Prayer}             For Christmas, Faith had been asking for this pendulum clock. Now, this clock comes with probably a thousand different pieces. Some of them the size of my head, some of them about the height of an eraser on the end of a regular pencil.  To say that “some assembly is required”…