We often take the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for granted and sometimes even skip over them as we try to grow as or mature as Christians. However, as I grow older, the more I see the need to slow down and pull out a magnifying glass to...

On June 24th, Roger was asked to speak at the congregation where he grew-up in north Dayton. It has been several years since he was able to visit, and he gave a lesson on “The Pattern”. As is his standard, Roger used some imagery for his lessons, but this time...

Roger’s lessons for toady were titled “Bitter and Sweet”. The lessons begin with an act of God as the children of Israel are leaving Egypt and complain about a lack of water. The method God chooses to have Moses make the bitter water sweet segues into the lessons. The first...

In the adult class tonight, the study focused on Joseph. There was a good bit of discussion regarding what scripture says (or does not say) about what Joseph was privy to regarding all that God was doing in his life (the bad and good). While we see Joseph’s life over...

Several years ago, Roger wrote an article on this site called, Something from Nothing. The article did not include all the things about the subject he wanted to convey, but it was meant to show the folly in some of the lofty explainations of the complexity of life, while only...

Over the past few weeks, Roger has noticed more and more often how people seem to pick and choose their religions, their faith, or their behaviors. They do what they feel they need to, or more often WANT to do. It is not a new tendency. This lesson on Baking...