Barry York

He came banging in through the church door last Saturday, calling out with his thick tongue, "Hel-wo! Pas-ta!" As this "pas-ta" came out of his study and walked down

Usually Vacation Bible Schools are held during the summer so squirmy little kids can learn what they did not know about the Bible. Last month, this preacher felt like he went to VBS

Between attending denominational meetings, packing to leave for a family conference, sending a family to Scotland, caring for my mom and trying to do my necessary work, little time is left for the

Sneaking up to the corner of the house, the scrawny eight year-old boy carefully peered around it into the carport. His lips, perpetually separated by buckteeth, broke into a grin as he saw

Over the past several years I have run into "the question" ever so often, just infrequently enough to forget it is there. The experience is much like the one I have

Last night, June 7th, the first Reformation Society of Men's meeting in Kokomo was held in the Fellowship Hall of the Sycamore RPC. We had 17 men in attendance. The men

Well over four hundred shots rang out on the Deer Track Golf Course located near Frankfort, Indiana, on Tuesday as three other men ventured out on the golf course with moi for my

"She stretches out her hands to the distaff, and her hands grasp the spindle." -Proverbs 31:19 While having family worship at our table one morning this week with Miriam'

At our session meeting Wednesday night, our elders decided to begin a Men's Society at Sycamore Reformed Presbyterian Church. Having seen a need to help men grow in the grace of

Often people and even congregations boast of "No Creed but Christ" or "No Creed but the Bible," meaning they are downplaying the importance of having formulated doctrines of the

I do not often shout at my wife. If not for some foolish moments of indiscretion in my youth, I could even say I never shout at her. Why? Well, I would like

Despite the fact that I re-sprained the arch of my left foot doing so, and had to hobble the rest of the way through it, I thoroughly enjoyed getting out on the basketball

While I was in the Philippines in 2004, Miriam orchestrated, with the help of several friends in the church, the redecoration of my office. I had worked in it for months with it

Every so often I don the role of Embarrasem Keillor and tell the congregation a story such as the one below about the saints of a church named Sycamore located near Lake Woes-Be-Gone.

When it comes to college education, perhaps you should not listen to me. * My oldest son is only a senior in high school, so I cannot yet claim to speak from family experience.

Now look carefully at the title. This is not entitled blogology, which would be the study of the history of weblogs and their societal impact. Neither is it **_blogistics, _**which would measure the

Recently a friend who attends our church asked me: "Would you give me some scripture that supports the church's decision to be so selective in who partakes in communion?...As

_“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the

Almost every newspaper or news magazine likes to tout that they are unbias and objective in their reporting. Yet all of us, when retelling events we have witnessed or researched (which is at

Last post (see below) I explained how I suffer from Celiaism. I know how annoying people can be who insist on telling you about every ache and pain of their condition, but bear

I thought I would use this blog site to announce that recently I have been diagnosed with a condition known as "Celiaism." Perhaps I should have called each of you personally

My last blog (see below) told the story of the missionary Boniface. He cut down the Oak of Thor in the Middle Ages to remove the superstitious idol from among the Germanic people

(At a college dinner the other night, I read the following story with the title above.) With his boots crunching the fallen leaves beneath him, and the early morning mist beginning to fade

"Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be **_noticed by men _**when they are fasting. Truly

Some Megachurches Close for Christmas [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/06/D8EB5R608.html]- How do you like that for a title? I'm not making it up. Look for