Posts by Michael Becker

Thursday Thoughts – Dec. 4, 2025 By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey, Pastor Faith Presbyterian Church Cedar Rapids, Iowa To answer a frequent question: No, this has not been copied from the internet. HOLIDAY PLANS: The Makings of Misery? The e-mails are flying about and the phone calls are being made as families try…

THE PLAN: November 20, 2025 By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Pastor, Faith Presbyterian Church of Cedar Rapids, IA The golfer stood above the ball, which rested on the tee. He stared down at the ball. Glancing momentarily at his grip, he began his back swing and then stopped. He couldn’t think of what…

Thursday Thoughts – November 13, 2025 By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Faith Presbyterian Church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa How to get from here to there? A guide to using GPS Most plans begin with a desire to get from here to there. Most of the time, if we are not familiar with the…

Thursday Thoughts: Nov. 6, 2025 By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Pastor, Faith Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Why won’t you listen? Everyone who has ever been a parent has asked that question at one point or another. Even though parents have knowledge and experience beyond that of the child, there are those times…

Thursday Thoughts: October 30, 2025 By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Faith Presbyterian Church “How did you do that?” It’s the question of everyone watching a magician. Of course, the person doing the magic tricks is never willing to share any knowledge for fear that if we know how it is done, we won’t…

October 23, 2025 Thursday Thoughts By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Faith Presbyterian Church The Plan: Influenced By the Past If I had only known then, what I know now…there aren’t many who haven’t felt the reality of those words. Looking back we would have done things differently. We would have studied harder, we…

October 16, 2025 Thursday Thoughts By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Faith Presbyterian Church ACHIEVING THE GOAL Life is difficult enough without first coming up with a plan and then having the added burden of having to stick to the plan. Isn’t it better to just jump in and let things happen and then…

Thursday Thoughts October 9, 2025 – The Plan By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Faith Presbyterian Church Holy and Acceptable “Add a cup of dirt and two rotten eggs to the brownie mix before stirring.” That one line in a recipe would have dozens of people calling the cookbook publisher. No one would add…

Thursday Thoughts – October 2, 2025 By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Faith Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, IA When plans go wrong: The child died, the marriage broke up, the job was lost, the affair was found out, the disease progressed, the building collapsed, the money was lost, the well dried up, the judge…

By the Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Morey Faith Presbyterian Church of Cedar Rapids KNOWING HOW THE DETAILS FIT The details are important in many aspects of life. We find the more details we can identify and work out during the planning stages of a project, the less likely frustrations are to occur along the way.…