Tonight I felt real care and concern from an animal. I will tell you the details as they progressed. It is all about a tiny little feline, whose given name is simply, Precious. There is no way to show you with words, the way her tail is too fluffy, and she tosses it...
"Peter and John were going up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon. Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were...
When Hezekiah took possession of the throne from his father King Ahaz, he went on a housecleaning spree. He reopened the doors to God’s house and repaired them. He gathered the priests and Levites and placed them on the square on the east as they had been during King...
"Come and share your master's happiness!" (Matt 25:23 NIV) My oldest son loves to smile. In almost every picture of him from infancy to the present day, he has a huge smile on his face. He doesn’t just smile for the camera either. I notice that he also smiles at...
I have been learning all my life. Or I presume that is how I got to be so smart. Oh yeah! I started out in Kindergarten at the age of five in a school in South St. Louis, MO. I really learned a lot in Kindergarten. First I learned how to get a vaccination. Ouch!! Then...
"Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me." (Psalm 51:12) Years ago, I went to a conference in Los Angeles. One of the speakers was H.B. London, who is known nationally as being a pastor to pastors in crisis. He spent over...
"The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." (Zeph.3:17 NIV) As Lyn Chaffart says in one of her devotionals, "The point is, we are God’s children, and...
"Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience." (Col 3:12-13 NIV) Spring has definitely sprung here in the mountains of my home. As I walked in my yard this morning I heard a...
Let me start by saying that I DO NOT celebrate Halloween. I don't put up pictures of ghosts or goblins and I don't hand out candy to the "Trick or Treat - ers". We have all seen pictures of black cats, though, with bowed back, tail in the air and every hair sticking...
"To Timothy, my dearly beloved son ..." (2 Tim. 1:2) This opening address to Timothy reminded me very much of the words I use to address a birthday or personal greetings card. It is direct but personal and using the word 'To' evokes to my mind affection from either a...