Why Not Lent?
Lent has never been part of my personal Christian experience but as a missionary envoy of the Bible Fellowship Church serving in...
Terrible Twos: a Precious God Moment
My oldest didn’t have a "terrible twos" stage. Rather, being an overachiever, she began life with an opposition to authority that intensified...
Pass Me Not, O Gentle Shepherd: Cancer Journey with Jesus Christ
I’ve mentioned before how there’s always a song in my head when I wake up and often during the day. Sometimes I...
What is a Merry Christmas?
That word "Merry" is a strange one with both the brightest and the darkest of meanings. It is used a dozen times...
Jesus Wept: a Precious God Moment
The Adult Sunday School class was an inductive study in Acts – dated concept, but it works. Somehow the raising of Dorcas...
The True Vine: John 15:1
The words of Jesus from the 15th Chapter of the Gospel of John are surely some of the...
Letter from a Freedman to his old Master
Jourdon Anderson was freed from slavery when the Union army reached the Tennessee plantation where he and his family were enslaved. He...
Assurances from Isaiah 40 through 53
It seems that our problems have become God-sized and our God has become small in comparison. In Isaiah 43 the first three...
A Bitter Wound
“The Lord has certainly inflicted a bitter wound in the death of our infant son. But He...
Is Christmas for You?
Do you like Christmas? Are you celebrating it this year? Better stated: Is it appropriate for YOU...