Whats your story?

I love it when people share their stories with us. Quite frankly, it’s the stories of changed lives that keep us going. For starters, it’s one of God’s promises that He’s doing something when his Word (embedded in Life 101.9 music) goes forth. “the words that come out of my mouth will not come back empty-handed.Â…

February 11, 2020

Taking aim

A famous basketball player was once quoted as saying, “you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Well…Yeah! Duh! The point was obviously that an important part of scoring is about taking a lot of swings rather than not taking any. But there is another part of the equation. You have to have a goal…

Tim Calcara on January 18, 2020

Entertaining Angels

Making memories. There’s nothing like it. And the older I get, the more important that becomes. Ask me what I want for Christmas, and I will struggle to tell you even one thing – unless that one thing is a memory. I guess that’s why we often say, “the best things in life are free.” There’s just …

Tim Calcara on December 10, 2019

The bell tolls for thee

Need a simple teaching moment this Christmas? Take the kids or grand kids out shopping and when you hear the bell, make a donation to the Salvation Army and tell them the story of how the Army began. Or if you want to make a bigger impression on those little ones, why not sign up for a two hour shift and ring the bell this year with family members?…

Tim Calcara on December 3, 2019

Little Blue and you

We said goodbye to Little Blue last week. We traded in Grandma’s little Toyota after nearly 200,000 faithful miles of trouble free service. It was bittersweet to say the least. We actually thought about keeping her a little longer because she still runs like a top but the timing seemed right to get something with fewer miles…

Tim Calcara on November 25, 2019

School days

School days, school days, dear old Golden Rule days… The Golden Rule. Hmmmm. Where did that idea come from and what does it mean? Turns out the Golden Rule is in the Bible. It’s part of what has become known as the “Sermon on the Mount” chronicled in the NT gospels of Matthew and Luke. The lesson of the Golden…

Tim Calcara on August 27, 2019

Breakin’ out of the holy huddle

So how do you break out of your holy huddle? You know about the holy huddle, don’t you. That’s the treadmill of activity that keeps you so involved in “church activities” that you don’t have time to cultivate relationships with people who see life differently than you do. Here’s how we form…

Tim Calcara on August 27, 2019

Daily check up for good health

What if you were to get a daily check up from your doctor just to make sure that everything was functioning properly and that you would be prepared physically for any challenge the day would bring? Sounds kind of silly and probably more than just a little bit of overkill. Yet, spiritually speaking, I would submit that getting a daily…

Tim Calcara on June 28, 2019

Die-hard fans

The Life 101.9 team is a bunch of die-hards. We’re fanatical about the music we play. Truth be told, our team never tires of sharing life-changing music with our listeners because it’s so listenable. Catchy. And the lyrics are so, well…life-changing. So how do we know? Because from time to time, our listeners…

Tim Calcara on April 30, 2019

Stories to tell

My wife has an old typewriter that she used when she was in high school. It may be the only useless thing we own that we won’t take to the landfill before we transition to a condo later this month. We plan to keep it just as a conversation piece. It’s been around to witness hundreds of stories. More than we’ll ever have…

Tim Calcara on March 11, 2019