This first appeared as a Facebook post of mine. Sometimes Facebook posts are just words for the wind to carry off and never be heard from again… after re-reading these words a few times, I don’t think these fall into that category. “Today Americans celebrate a bold statement: a declaration of independence from the British […]

Summer can often get hectic around the Hammond Household: all the kids from the neighborhood are home from school and we try to keep an open door policy for them to come over and interact if they need to, our kids are home from school and want to do all of the summer activities, and […]

This is one of those questions that has been rolling around in my head for a while, but in order to actually engage with the idea… we should take some time to understand what I mean by the words “Function” and “Form.” Function When I say Function what I am talking about is a desired […]

I have a house that is constantly filled with little people these days.  They are growing, and learning, and stretching their boundaries, and playing as hard as they can, and working out issues together… well, to be honest… we are still working on working through issues together well. We have been trying to use a […]

No, an agora is not some body part that you haven’t ever heard of before. An agora is an English transliteration of the the Greek word αγορα. It means “marketplace” and it comes up in passages like this one from Acts 17: 16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to […]

It has now been almost three weeks since Good Friday and Easter this year. But so much has happened over the past couple of weeks that it feels like it has been forever since we came together and joyfully declared, “He is risen; He is risen, indeed!” Maybe you aren’t feeling the same strain on […]

I know it won’t come as a surprise to any of you that I was talking to my sister recently. I am not sure how the topic came up, but we got to talking about Sabbath rest an how sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between Sabbath Rest and Laziness. The conversation has […]

I love questions like this because it forces us to think about the things that God has done for us through sending His Son, who was born or a virgin, lived and taught as a wise man, suffered as a common criminal, and then was resurrected to new life to proclaim His divinity once and […]

While this may have happened last year as well… a huge snowstorm in April is still unconventional. Granted, it definitely made me think about the song lyrics that say, Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain; He washed me pure as snow. I started wondering, is this […]

I am not sure if any of you remember this past winter… but at some point it was still warm enough for me to go outside and grill up some bacon… I think it was around Christmas time… And then the grill was all warm and so I decided to let it cool down before […]