I read an article from In Touch Ministries a few days ago. The title was "Who Needs Patience?" The author commented: "The ability to wait is an essential spiritual discipline." I know that you remember that old bumper sticker..."Be Patient! God isn't done with me yet." The idea is certainly humorous, but it also reveals something about humankind. The author [...]

Well...another year has arrived. With it comes a strong desire to be prayerful. When I pray I somehow feel as if I am in control of something. There are many bizzare traditions surrounding the "ushering in of a new year" around the world; a quick google search will affirm this to be true. I read recently that [...]

Greetings from Tennessee - this the last Monday of 2024. Happy New Year!  May God grant us His favor and return to take us home to be with Him in 2025. As we leave 2024 behind and enter into another new year, I want to encourage you to make 2025 the year where you and I [...]

Merry Christmas! My granddaughter, who turns three today, is fascinated with the Angels that are so very prominent in the Biblical account of the birth of Jesus. As she was "helping" unpack tree ornaments last week, her priority was on finding the "angel topper". She had remembered that specific ornament from last year. Of course once we found it, she carefully supervised its [...]

I just love saying Merry Christmas; no Happy Holiday wishes out here where we live in Tennessee. As we creep ever closer to celebrating Christmas 2024 we all know individuals and families that are struggling with loss and find it difficult to rejoice in the Good News. For so many, Christmas is just a hard season to endure. [...]

Merry Christmas from Tennessee! I recently read an article from InTouch Ministries entitled "For the Troubled Heart". The premise was that the pressures and burdens of life don't have to result in despair. Although Thanksgiving and Christmas are marvelous occasions to celebrate the blessings God has given, especially the birth of our Savior, these same occasions can also be VERY difficult for [...]

I trust you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Family and Friends! Now ... on to Merry Christmas! Last week we spent a little time meditating on this passage from Psalm 127 "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." As INTENTIONAL Men [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! I am "fixin" to celebrate my first Thanksgiving in Tennessee. As you know, Thanksgiving is a uniquely American Celebration; it exists for one simple reason. The Pilgrims, who founded the Plymouth Plantation (Modern day Massachusetts) in 1620, were so grateful to have survived their first year in this new land that they put together [...]

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I pause to ponder the ramifications of this uniquely American celebration. As I mentioned last week, the official commencement of Thanksgiving was a Presidential Proclamation by Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. "In no other time has the experiment of government, of the people, by the people, and for the people, [...]

Well...as I sit down to write this blog the day after the 2024 election I confess to having a little faith restored in our Constitutional Republic. The Denison Forum comments: "Elective democracy both expresses and forges our national character. It is the natural outgrowth of our founding creed that 'all men are created equal...' offering [...]