“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…

Years ago, all teachers in the large inner-city school where I taught were required to step into the hallway between classes while students were passing.  The teachers would glance at each other and give a faint smile, or nod.  I…

Recently, my pastor in Massachusetts delivered a sermon on ‘boundaries’ that we may be required to cross in our lifetime.  And that may happen at any point from re-locating, to being put into a new position in our job, to…

My time in Romania – July, 2024 to December, 2024 – was an unparalleled challenge – like never before.  Everything did not go wrong.  It just seemed as if it were ‘everything’.  I had only been in the country less…

I have a story to tell:     Once upon a time way back in the early 1900’s, there was a thirty-two-year-old mother of five with the youngest being only a few months old.  Besides their own biological children, the older widower…

I was shocked one year when I was teaching in the Providence (RI) Public School System to hear one of my students say, “I hate Christmas”.   And, even more shocked when I found out that there were others who held…

It’s interesting every four years watching so many get their thoughts, their brains – (and the need to revisit their junior high mentality) – over who is going to become elected President of the USA.  It’s sad, too.  I watch…