Eunice and Lois: Raising Timothys How many of you have mothers? Should be most of you. Motherhood is not just a very common job but hard work. Let’s face the facts, if being a mother was easy us Dad’s would do it. What makes a mother’s job hard is that Read more…
Help is Just a Prayer Away The recession was a serious concern in the early eighties. Reagan’s policies had not yet had a chance to take affect and turn the economy around. I was paying no attention to this. After all I just got married and was starting out as Read more…
Covid-19 Is Saving Lives It is sad to hear of somebody’s loved one’s life being cut short during this Covid-19 pandemic. Whereas most of the loss of life are the elderly and especially those with pre-existing conditions, the crisis has been saving the lives of the youngest citizens of this Read more…
Leading the Blind Have I ever mentioned my good friend Russ? Well, Russ was the manager of the Sohio gas station just a few blocks from the high school. I started working for him the summer I turned sixteen. One day I was working on a Saturday with my friend Read more…
White Must Be My Favorite Color What is your favorite color? My granddaughter, Katherine’s favorite color is purple. She has given subtle reminders for me on various occasions. Like the time I came over to the house and she asked me to pick her up. She looked straight into my Read more…
Love Made Perfect 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But Read more…
Baby Like Appetites 1 Peter 2:2,3 – as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. One man began by saying, “I’m so hungry I could eat a cow.” The second man, joined in Read more…
Praying in Song Having read many of the Psalms, I have noticed over and over that many of them are prayers turned into a song or vice versa. Many of the hymns in our song books read like prayers. The following prayer has been constructed using the titles of spiritual Read more…
Lessons from an Alien Life Form So what do you do in the evenings when you are home bound during the Covid-19 crisis for weeks. You binge watch TV shows. I can think of no more appropriate show to watch than ALF sitcoms. He is the funny little alien from Read more…
Modeling Jesus When I first agreed to teach the new two-year-old class, I must admit I was a little bit apprehensive. It had been twenty years since I last taught this age group and my daughter, Tia, was one of my students. The day before beginning this class I told Read more…