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...
I opened my bible this morning at 1 Kings Chapter 18. The scene is set with the Prophet Elijah. It is three years into a very severe drought. Times are hard there is no water either physically or spiritually. Finally, into the third year of the drought, the LORD...
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...
Stand up, stand up for Jesus, you servants of the cross ............ Every time I sing the lyrics of this song, I feel in my spirit the depth of God's marvelous plan for us his children to stand tall, with heads lifted up to heaven , and hearts bowed down to the King...
Once we pass Salvation , our lives take a major change of re-routing. The road we were once on has now got to change to the road, Christ destined for us. The blueprint of God's plan for our lives is Redemption, Righteousness and Worship. In order to...
When I woke up this morning, as I pondered in my heart, I had a sudden realization that there were exactly 40 days and nights to 1st January 2007. Then I began to think of the references in the Bible to forty days. I discovered there are dozens of them. I picked a few...
In the penultimate part of the series on the Parable of talents, today we shall focus on two themes… "N0" success, no problem: "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things'" (Matt 25:21) Wheelchair runners in...
In the concluding part of the series on the "Parable of talents", today we come to the final lesson...in fact there is a lesson within a lesson to be had here ... "N0" EXCUSE "...His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! ... And throw that worthless servant...
I gave blood again the other day. It was such a delightful experience. I arrived early to beat the crowds but found that several other early birds had gotten there even before me. We all smiled about it and waited patiently while the Red Cross finished setting up the...