Posts with the category “nathan-mcclay”

The family is seated at the Thanksgiving table with plates and silverware neatly arranged over a crisp, white tablecloth. Quite a spread of delectable fixings is before the folks that are gathered the...  Read More

I received an email recently, notifying me that August 21 is Senior Citizen’s Day. I had not been aware that such a day even existed. Having just reached my 60th birthday, I will have to keep this hol...  Read More

The winter nights are cold, dark, and long, while the daytime sky is often cloudy and gray.  The barren tree limbs sway helplessly, while the bitter winds whisper a mournful tune. If the winter season...  Read More

Dark, ominous clouds of God’s threatening judgment loomed over the city of Nineveh. This was the second time in Old Testament history that God would send a prophet to the city to warn the residents of...  Read More

The scene has been played out multiple times in recent years: unruly mobs taking to the streets of our cities, bent on riotous destruction, even invading the capitol in Washington, DC, with each side ...  Read More

On July 8, 1776, the liberty bell in Philadelphia rang out to summon the citizens of the newly formed republic to gather for a public reading of the Declaration of Independence, which had been signed ...  Read More

Because I have attended church since infancy, there are many tunes and lyrics of hymns that bounce around the empty space between my ears. Some of these hymns describe the greatness of our God in ways...  Read More