Dear Friends, I did more than write this week’s message–I lived it forty-one years ago. It’s surprising I could write it down because there are no words adequate for the tender truth it tells. Each of us have choices to make each day. Do we help someone in need? Do we do nothing but
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A Word of Grace – November 3, 2014
Dear Friends, I shower and dress after my Friday morning physical training session. My arthritic lower back was tweaked a bit while doing squats. The ache reminds me to put my wallet into the right front pocket of my comfortable slacks where it won’t make my sitting posture uneven, aggravating the inflammation. Because it is
A Word of Grace — October 27, 2014
Dear Friends, One of the overlooked commands of Scripture is “Be thankful” (1 Cor 10:30; Col 3:15; Col 4:2; Heb 12:28). The prescription is for a state of being for the believer. It is not an instruction to do something. Have you ever gritted your teeth and tried to force yourself to be thankful? True
A Word of Grace – September 29, 2014
Dear Friends, Then he said to them all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23, ESV). Patricia and our son Andrew, then four years-old, were making chocolate chip cookies for a wedding shower. I passed through the kitchen and asked Andrew
A Word of Grace – September 8, 2014
Dear Friends, Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go along side you.” But Jacob said to him., “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the