It was eighty-five years ago – November 9, 1935, to be exact – that Freda Elizabeth Cochran and Lewis Ermon Bean became a young married couple in Washington County, Maine.  I knew them better as Mama and Daddy.  Actually, they…

I was so tired after being out and about doing so many errands recently – not to mention the ache in my lower back from a recent injury – that I decided I could just absolutely not get back to…

This is a familiar story to you — The apostle Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus spent much of his adult life terrorizing and persecuting early followers of Jesus.  He seemed to feel it was his duty – that…

I once heard a speaker say that there are three ‘epoch times’ in the life of a follower of Christ.  The first is ‘formation’.  ‘There is a time to be born . . .’  (Ecclesiastes 3.2)  And, August was the…

I read this information recently from one, Sir John Glubb, (1897-1986) the British diplomat who studied four-thousand years of human history and who found that there was a pattern to the decline of great nations.  He said that the last…