If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed. (John 8:36) Overnight, the temperatures had dropped. I awoke to frost on the ground — a good morning for a fire, I’d thought. But the morning slipped away, and the idea was soon forgotten….

(Previously offered at a dinner honoring veterans — Nov., 2016) It is both a privilege and an honor to speak to those of you here this evening who are veterans — to offer you thanks on behalf of myself and so many others — some…