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Rick’s Reflections … Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I’m hoping that sometime soon I’ll stop writing 2010 on my checks since the new year is now several weeks old!

I always enjoy reading, watching and listening to the various highlights of the past year that appear before...

Rick’s Reflections … The Fast and the Furious

I’m writing this from my hotel room near La Guardia airport in New York City. I always feel an extra jolt of energy when I’m in the Big Apple. The combination of densely populated neighborhoods, traffic, incredible ethnic diversity,...

Rick’s Reflections … Congregations and Community 

Recent Wheat Ridge travels allowed me to join congregations in California and in northern Wisconsin on consecutive Sundays for worship and Bible study. As always, it was great to talk with people in these congregations about the seeding...

Rick’s Reflections … Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

Perhaps you remember this Bobby McFerrin song that was a big hit in the late 1980s. If you do, you’re probably already tapping your toes and swaying to the music in your head! I almost always have a tune or two playing in my head, often...

Rick’s Reflections … Go Team Go!

I’m thinking a lot about teams as I write this at the start of a late August weekend. Being a Chicago Bears fan, I’m anticipating tonight’s pre-season game hoping for signs that the Bears can return to “Monsters of the Midway”...