Several years ago, I was listening to a well known preacher on my car radio.  He was giving the most amazing message – and one that I needed desperately to hear.  His message concerned Joseph (of the Old Testament) –…

When my youngest son was six years old, he announced that he wanted a dog for Christmas – and a ‘real’ one!  Previously when he had asked for a dog, he always got a stuffed dog toy, or other animal. …

I recently heard a pastor of a large church in California say that he preferred Isaiah over David concerning the trust/fear issue.  In his prophecy, Isaiah said (12.2), ‘I will trust, and will not be afraid’.  In Psalm 56.3, when…

Back in the 1980’s, Sandi Patty and Larnelle Harris sang a duet unparalleled to any other, in my mind, anyway – “I’ve Just Seen Jesus”.  It moved me like no other piece of Christian music ever had at that time. …

One September many years ago, my boys and I were running a little late to get to our Christian School on time.  After going to the car, it came to me that I had forgotten a book that I would…

Generally, every February I dedicate this space to having something to do with ‘love’.  Here in New England, February can also be the ‘flu and storm month’, but given that Valentine’s Day greets us with a note of positivity (for…

2020 is gone.  It is over.  Never were people so happy to kick a year to the curb.  It was the ‘year that was’!  I heard Charles Swindoll say recently, “Other than the normal difficulties a year can bring, Covid-19…

I know the Scripture lends itself to our crying out our praise to our Magnificent God.  ‘Shout for joy to God, all the earth’ – Psalms 66.1 and 100.1.  All of Psalm 150 concerns itself with shouting out our praise…

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…