"... Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ..." (Eph 5:20-21 NKJV) Whenever the bare trees and grey skies of mid November start to get me down and I start to mope about how Autumn always ends too early, I go to a...
"A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones." (Prov 17:22 NKJV) Here is a riddle for you. What is black, white and brown, has eight legs, and can do 60 miles an hour down a carpeted hallway? Do you give up? The answer is two puppies...
Christmas is a season when we give gifts to those we love. Like the three wise men of old too we each hope to find the perfect gift to express our love. As I look back on all the perfect gifts that I have gotten over the years, however, I have noticed that none of...
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13-14 NKJV) When I was a boy growing up my Dad, Mom, Grandma, two brothers and I all lived together in an aging house. The house had originally been built from two Shanty...
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps 118:24 NKJV) Autumn this year in the mountains of my home has been truly spectacular. It is like an angel artist has been assigned to paint each tree in the most glorious colors imaginable....
"If there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." (Rom 13:9-10 NKJV) It was six years ago. I was walking into a...
"giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ . . ." (Eph 5:20-21 NKJV) All of us at some point in our lives have wished that we could write a letter to our younger selves. We have wished we could pass on the wisdom we...
It was mid-October when I first spotted them. They were nestled in next to the candy and Halloween costumes as I walked through the store. They were the first Christmas decorations of the year. It was the beginning of the 10 week period when the stores do all they can...
"And He said to him, 'Follow Me.'" (Matt 9:9 NKJV) An early April snow had caught us by surprise here in the mountains of my home. Flowers that had just popped out of the ground a week before were now drowning in a sea of white. It felt like someone had turned back...
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps 118:24 NKJV) The television news was droning on and on this evening. It was full of every bad thing that happened in the world today. Finally I had to turn the set off. It wasn’t that I...