May 2021 – YOU and GOD

Faith Healing

Newspapers across the nation carried a story of an eleven-year-old diabetic boy whose parents discarded his life-sustaining insulin that he had been taking for five years claiming that he had been healed after a so-called “faith healer” had laid hands on him in an attempt to “exorcise demons” and in so doing cure the ladContinue reading “Faith Healing”

Lest We Forget

Perhaps you have read as have I that the world’s great civilizations have had life spans of about 200 years, progressing in a sequence of (1) moving from bondage to spiritual faith; (2) from spiritual faith to courage; (3) from courage to liberty; (4) from liberty to abundance; (5) from abundance to selfishness; (6) fromContinue reading “Lest We Forget”

God of the Second Chance

Where would any one of us be without those in our lives who have given us a second chance or third chance or multiple chances? The teacher who refused to let us go our own stubborn way. The parent who sought us and brought us back from the “foreign country” that we had wandered aimlessly and foolishlyContinue reading “God of the Second Chance”

Waiting Patiently On The Lord

Most of us are not wired to wait well. We prefer immediate and tangible results. We don’t expect answers to our prayers will come instantly, but we do hope that the answers will come rapidly. Learning to live patiently with expectations and anticipations have not proven to be the “strong suit” for most of us,Continue reading “Waiting Patiently On The Lord”

Prayer Made Effectual

James, writer under the Holy Spirit’s superintendence, of the powerful New Testament epistle of James, half-brother of Jesus, could not have said it more emphatically when, in urging his readers to practice praying persistently, he said “The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” (James 5:16) Literally, the word order in its originalContinue reading “Prayer Made Effectual”

Nelle Reeves Shuler

One of the great pleasures of pastoring fifty years was the joy of entertaining evangelists in our church and home as they held meetings with us or when they were crisscrossing the U.S. from one meeting to another and needed a place to stay for a night or two. I could mention many such asContinue reading “Nelle Reeves Shuler”