August 9, 2009
I just finished reading a disturbing piece on people who have been forced to take “less than desirable” jobs (dirty jobs that someone has to do), after having lost their cushy jobs (glamorous jobs that everyone wishes they could get)… Continue Reading…
August 6, 2009
1. If you seek first to please God and are satisfied therein, you have but one to please instead of multitudes; and a multitude of masters are hardlier pleased than one. 2. And it is one that putteth upon you… Continue Reading…
August 5, 2009
Noelle Starr is our pet daughter. She is actually a pussy cat who bethinks herself to be, and sometimes acts like, a person (sometimes she acts even better than people). I don’t know if she was born with an innate… Continue Reading…
August 4, 2009
Puritan writer/preacher, Richard Baxter was a powerful spiritual force in 17th Century England. J.I. Packer referred to him as “a man for all ministries.” In Kidderminster, there is a statue in memory of Baxter and this inscription appears at its… Continue Reading…
August 3, 2009
Linda and I have just returned home after an enjoyable weekend of travel and ministry. Leaving here on Friday afternoon we made our first stop at the home of Chaplain Meyer in Nevada IA. These folks are quickly becoming good… Continue Reading…
July 30, 2009
Linda and I have just come in from a pleasant cool summer evening (compliments of global warming; thank you Al Gore!) sitting by the fire on the patio. We were not the only ones in the neighborhood who enjoyed the… Continue Reading…
July 29, 2009
“… weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5) No one ever enjoys the painful experiences of life; the kind that have seismic repercussions which fracture the very foundations of everyday existence. But they… Continue Reading…
July 28, 2009
Have you ever been astonied? Sure you have! I like the word. It’s a wonderful biblical word that appears in the KJV about a dozen times or so and it means: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or… Continue Reading…
July 26, 2009
Mark Twain is reported to have said, “When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how… Continue Reading…
July 24, 2009
Did you know that one of the greatest benefactors to the protestant Reformation was a man by the name of John Day? Born while Henry VIII was king, John Day became, neither preacher nor politician … but a printer at… Continue Reading…