Many years ago when we were building our home in Massachusetts, we needed to pick out every last thing that would go in and on that house.  Everything from flooring, to countertops, to wood finishes, to hardware for cupboards, to…

“Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.”    – Acts 4.13 Amazed:  astonished; extremely surprised.   I…

In 2025, America will celebrate the 249th birthday of its independence from Great Britain on July 4th, a date also known as Independence Day. This day commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,…

From Paul David Tripp’s book, ‘Suffering’ –   ‘Here’s the bottom line: if you’re God’s child, you’ve been liberated from the self-centered burden of living for yourself, and you’ve been freed to live for Him. That means you’ve been called to…

When I was young, I remember a missionary from time to time coming to our local church in Maine needing to raise support either to go to a mission field, or return to the mission field where God had called…