"Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, (and) to keep oneself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27 ASV) I was walking out my door yesterday when a strong gust of wind blew something into...
If God does not shove you, you may not start walking. Stagnancy is the worst detriment to delaying one’s purpose in life. Have you ever considered that we are not born just to be self sufficient, self absorbed or selfish? Our lives on earth are more for others than it...
After my Father died and was buried, my mother felt an overwhelming urge to clear up everything concerning his demise. Still reeling from the fact that he had taken his own life with a gun, she found it hard to face the public. She knew all the tales that must be...
One Wednesday morning I received an unusual wish from a friend in an E-mail that said “ I hope you are having a happy “hump day". I guess the reasons that hump day fits are because by Wednesday we are over the hump and well into the week’s activity. It reminded me of...
"And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matt 22:39 NIV) My neighbor that lives just down the hill from me has "adopted" the family that lives across the road from her. She joyously calls their children her grandchildren and the mother and...
"To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices." (Mark 12:33 NIV) It had been a near-perfect day at Six Flags Darien Lake. It had...
Psalm 24:1 "The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it." I want to make a banner of this verse and super-impose it on a photograph of a hungry child in Appalachia. I want to be reminded that the least in our community, for...
"Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry...
I actually wrote the beginnings of this over a year ago. I was looking for something to write, and this struck a chord with me. No matter your endeavor, this concept works in ministry and business. In a few discussions with aspiring ministers, it dawned on me the...
"And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? How readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all...