I, ____________, have been sent on ‘special assignment’ by Christ as part of God’s master plan. – Colossians 1.1   When I grew up, I remember of pastors, parents, others asking if one was in God’s ‘will’ for their life.  Were they…

I grew up in the State of Maine where it snowed nearly every day of the Winter months. It didn’t always collect, but it just snowed . . . !   It was cold seven months of the year, and ‘freezing…

I’ve traveled to many a-far country.  I grew up in Maine on the Canadian border – and while that was not ‘far’ (to get to Canada), there have been several travels that took me a good distance from home.  Between…

It seems as if I could write a thousand stories of wonderful Christmas experiences from just my personal life alone.  But for this year, I have chosen just the following one. For more than three and a half years, I…

I don’t know if you ever watched the early 2000’s TV show, ‘Monk’ starring Tony Shalboub, but I enjoyed the show from time to time.  Shaloub’s character was Adrian Monk, a brilliant former San Francisco detective.  Monk suffered from an…

Before cigarette commercials were banned on American television in 1971, I remember a really attractive cigarette commercial targeting women.  Their slogan was ‘You’ve come a long way, baby!’  The commercial was well done and if you were a woman and…

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…