There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3) I built my first commercial vacuum sweeper in 1990. I was working for my friend Tom’s company at the time and he was launching a new business in the asbestos industry, manufacturing and selling “high efficiency” vacuums for

Roger in His Earthly Garden in 1975 A Reflection on Ephesians 5:15-17 My dad (as his dad before him) loved gardening. This picture from around 1975 shows him in his element in a massive flower garden he toiled to create in our backyard. Notice I said, “toiled.” I used that word intentionally because though it was a labor of love it was still labor. He is now in the Heavenly Garden so I can’t ask him, but I know the cultivation and maintenance of that backyard garden took year

The Self-Existence of God God has life in Himself, "He is a sun, a source, an ocean of good... He is the all-sufficient one, who needs nothing, but gives to all life and breath and everything." (Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2, Part 1, ch. 3, p. 151). What makes God, God? From a popular perspective, most people who might even try to answer that would likely say it was because God is “so big.” I’m reminded of the song we taught our kids: “Our God is so BIG, so stron