Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. We have made it a day for sharing cards, chocolate, flowers, and making expensive dining reservations. Clearly, retail has driven the way we celebrate Valentine’s Day. However, it didn’t start with fancy chocolates and Hallmark cards. Some say it started with a beheading! It is this story of Valentine, a Roman priest in the time of Claudius the Cruel, that reminds me what we should be celebrating. While the story of St. Valentine is veiled in

Hate explodes on our TV screens in so many ways. Hate, under the guise of justified wrong, parades its angry eyes, shoots its venomous words and divides and destroys. And the world is not better for it. So how can Solomon with so much wisdom carve out any time for hate? For anyone? How could he possibly give anyone permission to participate in something so destructive and delusional? Sliding off the backside of love to find a time to hate just doesn’t make sense. But what

We are so close to Christmas. But are we just as close to Christmas Truth? Do we understand that Love is the best gift of Christmas? Come as a baby, Jesus demonstrated that God in human flesh can hold enough love to transform, heal, help, and deliver life abundantly. God-in-us is Love-in-us! Not sentimental, fickle, selfish, or ineffective love. His Love is bold, pure, unfailing, empowering. Where there is hurt, distance, brokenness, doubt, fear; God’s Love in you will make a