Big Fish

By Dennis E. Powell | May 13, 2026 at 11:15 PM

My father died 21,550 days ago, and I still don’t really have him figured out.

If you do the arithmetic and remember leap year days, you’ll find that it works out to 59 years.

We’ve Forgotten the Art of the Case

By E. Ryan Haffner | May 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM

Leland Vittert of NewsNation has been making the point for weeks, but when he said it on a radio program Sunday night, a lightbulb came on for me. He was talking about the Iran war, but it might as well have been about our society generally, a society that has forgotten the necessary task of persuasion on matters that matter.

It's [Not] a Gas

By Dennis E. Powell | May 06, 2026 at 11:18 PM

Sometimes it seems as if the universe is warning us against something. Or, perhaps, it is just measuring our determination. Testing us. In “The Once and Future King,” the fine telling of the Arthurian legend that set to music became “Camelot,” T. H. White offered the parable that sometimes bad things happen to keep worse things from happening.

I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die

By Jason Kettinger | May 06, 2026 at 2:19 PM

Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration.

Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.

Watching Japanese Baseball

By Dennis E. Powell | Apr 29, 2026 at 11:26 PM

Over the last few years, as frequent readers here know, I’ve taken interest in the lovely, even cute, Japanese culture.

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This Week at Little Hills - Jeremiah (April 28, 2026)

Pastor Tim turns to Jeremiah to briefly think about what prophets were frequently called to do: warn us. Jeremiah had reason for fear, but God assured him and sent him to call us to safety.

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Hello friends, welcome to This Week at Little Hills. You heard this week more than likely not one that we like to hear, one that’s important for us. Why does a siren go off and we say, oh no, not a siren? Well, because it means bad things. But we’re thankful for those sirens because they warn us that bad things are coming. They’re there for our safety.

To God’s prophets, they came in bad news. People said, oh no, not another one of those messages. But God sent them for the people’s good and for our continued good. So it was when God commissioned Jeremiah in chapter 1, verse 8, he said, do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you. He intended safety for Jeremiah, but why was he sending him then to people who would oppose him? Well, because he was sending him to deliver them as well. God wasn’t sending to destroy the prophet or the people the prophet was speaking to, but rather to offer them hope.

When we read God’s word and we think, I don’t want to hear this. It’s not what I want to hear. It’s not what I want to do. What we need to hear is just like those sirens and say, well, you know, maybe I should go ahead and get inside now, get to shelter now, because the storm is coming. The storm here is coming. Clearly, I’m going to need to go here in a moment. But are we ready to hear the storms of life as they’re coming? That’s God’s call for us. Hear the warnings of his word. Be willing to tell us to take shelter and then take that shelter. I hope that’s an encouragement to you this week. I’m going to go ahead and get in shelter right now, and I’ll see you again very soon.