Monday Morning Manna


  • Merry COVID Christmas My Christmas sermon was ready to be preached. Then I was exposed to COVID, and placed on a fourteen day quarantine. On Saturday evening, I was advised…

  • Monday Morning Manna: Always be Ready

    I have a long-time friend and colleague who recently tested positive for COVID and pneumonia. He is currently hospitalized in the ICU area of a major hospital. When I talked…

  • Monday Morning Manna: New Methods for New Circumstances

    Times have changed. People are staying home from church services in record numbers – and blaming the COVID virus. History has shown when we are forced by circumstances to change,…

  • Monday Morning Manna: Fighting that Fractures Fellowship

    In the late 1960s, I commuted to Seminary with an interesting group of want-a-be-ministers. Our carpool consisted of two soon-to-be Senior Pastors, one military Chaplain who would become a denominational…

  • Monday Morning Manna: A Prayer During COVID Thanksgiving

    It’s unclear if on that first Thanksgiving, the colonists and Native Americans ate turkey at their feast. More likely, they indulged in other interesting foods like lobster, and seal. What…

  • Monday Morning Manna: A Thanksgiving Tradition Continued

    Several years ago, I granted permission to e-Thoughts, a weekly online devotional ministry, to use any of my Monday Morning Manna that they wanted to use. I was honored again…

  • Monday Morning Manna: Serve with Gladness

    We sang a song yesterday in the worship service that I had completely forgotten. It was a song from my youth, written in 1931 by B.B. McKinney, and based on…

  • Monday Morning Manna: Afternoon Naps

    I used to wonder why my father went home for lunch every day. The food was good, but not that much better than anywhere else he could have gone for…

  • Monday Morning Manna: Pastors and Gifts

    This is Pastor Appreciation Month. I will take my Pastor to lunch this week. It is a small, but meaningful gift. We will talk as we eat – about the…

  • Monday Morning Manna: Voting For or Against?

    I am old enough to remember when politicians campaigned on their record instead of campaigning against the record of their opponent. Repeatedly during this election, I have been forced to…


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