Normally I list a Scripture and write on the insight to which the scripture points.  This week I have something different in mind.  I hope to get you to thinking in terms of Thanksgiving and Christmas in a different light. An expression commonly used today is think forward or pay forward in reference to looking [...]

Sometimes I get an email with such a great lesson and story that I want to share it with all of you.  This came from Jennifer Hughes and I think it is appropriate.  So get your heart open to a great lesson:   Malachi 3:3  He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. [...]

Then little children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray.  The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them; but Jesus said , “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom [...]

Please read Ephesians 4:1-6 “Accept the call and stay true” I am reading a book by Paul E. Miller titled  A Praying Life.  In this book Mr. Miller walks the reader through aspects of prayer that we have all faced.  He touches on the dry times, how God hears us, what we can expect, how [...]

Please read Matthew 6:5-8. When I first learned to pray I thought that prayer of always public.  It is what I had experienced. I had had the evening quiet prayers but my major exposure was in church.  Large and long prayers recited by both the congregation and the leader.  Then I discovered praying in secret [...]

Please read Romans 8:28-39. People say that when an event of grave consequence happens we remember exactly where we were and what we were doing.  September 11, 2001 was for me just such an event.   I was getting dressed to start the day and I had my night stand TV on and then the [...]

Read 2 Timothy 2:1-7 A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ   Mission to Haiti resumed after the January 12, 2010 earthquake as quickly as was deemed safe. We have three of our own traveling to Haiti on a mission trip from October 20 through October 28, 2011:  Mike and Linda Smith and Chandra Londenberg.  They [...]

Where there is no vision, the people perish.  (Proverbs 29:18) , Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision;  I speak to him in a dream. (Numbers 12:6);  Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been [...]

Please read: “Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored that was me—you did it to me. ” Matthew 25:40   At 7:51 am, January 12, 2007, a young musician took his position against a wall in a Washington, D.C., metro station.  He wore jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and a Washington [...]

Please read:  Luke 10:38-42 This is the story of Mary and Martha.  Remember Martha was busy making dinner and doing all the fixing and Mary was enjoying the company of Jesus.  This made Martha upset and she told Jesus so.  In fact she asked Him to tell her to help her.  Jesus’ reply was, ”Mary [...]