"Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other." (1 John 4:11) Recently a kind lady found a six week old puppy abandoned in her driveway. It was skin and bones, covered in fleas, and close to death. It was beyond belief how anyone...
Over the years I have gotten so many letters and e-mails of appreciation for these simple stories I write. These letters always warm my heart. Once in a while, however, I get a letter from hurting soul who is angry with both God and life. I got one of these the other...
I blew kisses and waved good-bye at my two grandkids. They waved back from the back seat. “Remember,” I called out, “no more, no less.” In her high-pitched voice, my eight-year-old granddaughter called back, “No more, no less, Nana.” That’s our secret code. It began...
"...they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” (Rom 9:26) With the ever increasing speed of change in today’s world I have to admit that for the first time I am beginning to feel my age. When I was a boy being online meant helping my Mom hang up my jeans on the...
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal." (1 Cor. 13:1) I was walking into the store today to buy a bar of soap. I had no idea why I had forgotten it on my regular shopping trip but my...
She watched him leave, something impressing her she would not see him again He had vowed to fight her poverty, brought about by the greed of bureaucracy, and he was so sure he would succeed, there was a swagger in his step. Surely they would listen when they...
In the middle of Winter when a thick layer of snow covers the ground and the bitter, North wind is banging against my frosted windows I sometimes close my eyes and daydream of Spring. I imagine that snow melting into the ground and nourishing the tiny seeds beneath...
It's quiz time folks. Not a tough (for regular Bible reader's) question comes your way. Name the disciple whom Jesus loved. If your answer is John, Son of Zebedee, brother of James, pat yourself on the back. Light-hearted introduction apart, if we look at the...
In the second part of the Series on John the Son of Zebedee and brother of James having the unique ID of being the "Disciple whom Jesus loved", let's today focus on other weighty privileges which came John's way courtesy his unique ID... Redemption... As John alone of...
Today in the concluding part of our series on John's (son of Zebedee) unique ID of being the "Disciple whom Jesus loved", let's reflect finally on two more paramount privileges which came visiting him, all on account of his singular ID... Recognition... It is a misty...