No More Company

No More Company

“I Don’t Want More Company!” (Becoming a Person of Grace) We were cleaning our vacation rental after a wonderfully relaxing week at the beach which had followed another relaxing week at my sister’s cottage. I wasn’t particularly enjoying cleaning the cottage and...
Kathryn The Blind Seeing

Kathryn The Blind Seeing

She is legally blind but sees better than we do.  Here’s the scoop.  In 2014, we wanted to take Mike & Kathryn Hixson to Cuba with us.  They were serving Graham Church in Laingsburg, Michigan. Planning the trip required a couple of person-to-person meetings, and...
Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Esther 7:1-10 Queen Esther was beautiful. Scripture says she was “lovely in form and features” (2:7). When Esther walked into a room, heads would have turned. If she had lived today she would have been on every major magazine cover without the need of air brushing or...
Gladstone and  Victoria

Gladstone and  Victoria

Why Couldn’t They Get Along William Gladstone was the Prime Minister of England four times (between 1868 and 1898) during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 – 1901).     Description: Gladstone – Tall,  erect, the picture of uprightness and Victorian...
 It’s Impossible . . . 

 It’s Impossible . . . 

. . .  to “pray without ceasing” as I Thessalonians 5:17 directs. We have to work, sleep, eat, serve. Even the Bible directs that we are to do many other things than pray, but it still says, “Pray continuously.”  What could this mean?   It means...
Tell Me The Dream (Thoughts for Preachers)

Tell Me The Dream (Thoughts for Preachers)

 Your Delivery is Critical.   Some preachers take off, fly up to 35,000 feet, speak for forty minutes and then land, maintaining the same delivery.  Same intensity in their voice. Same tone of voice, same, volume.  Same, same (shame) puts people to...