Monthly Archives: May 2022

I have Melvin on my mind and have had for several days, so let me share with you some of his story. He and his family attended the church I pastored in Indianapolis and they always sat on the second row from the front.  Melvin, his wife, his mother, and their daughters–a special needs adult,Continue reading “Musings on Melvin”

This weekend and on Monday, the 30th, Americans will celebrate the 154th anniversary of Memorial Day, begun shortly after the Civil War ended. We honor it annually through picnics, vacations, races, family fun and a day off work. It has become—a day when we remember not only the brave men and women who gave theContinue reading “In Flanders Fields”

One of the most profound thoughts that could ever enter the human mind is this: that God loves me! You do not have to be old to come to that realization. Even little children can know that God loves them. Nor is it an assurance that is attained by graduating to higher levels of learningContinue reading “Oh, What Love!”

“The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” (Provs. 10:22) Every believer is indeed rich, “blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” (Eph. 1:3). Those blessings include such “unsearchable riches of Christ” (Eph.3:8) as forgiveness of sins, freedom from condemnation, adoption into the family ofContinue reading “Got Blessings?”

I hesitate to pen this post because it is about a personal experience, and I would rather talk about what happened to you or someone else than myself. But what I am about to share did happen and I am still trying to make some sense of it, so I am going to put itContinue reading “What Would You Have Done?”

The year was 1921. The place was downtown Indianapolis. The largest building of its kind at that time in the U.S., a religious center, had just been dedicated. Known as the Cadle Tabernacle, it could seat 10,000 guests along with a choir of 1,500. British evangelist Rodney “Gypsy” Smith preached the dedication service to aContinue reading “Indy’s Great Awakening”

Paul the Apostle, who himself had been before his conversion anything but weak, said that “not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen…the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.” (I Cor. 1:26,27) Had anyone been able to peekContinue reading “But God Hath Chosen”

Built for us in God’s own heart, She would love us from the start; Watching o’er us like none other, We would cherish our dear Mother. In her arms she drew us near There would chase away each fear. Through her loving, soothing voice, We knew we were hers by choice. From her eyes thereContinue reading “Mother”

With Mother’s Day coming, I would just like to use this opportunity to pay tribute to mothers and motherhood, quoting from various sources.  I hope it will be a blessing to all who read. “They talk about a woman’s sphere as though it had a limit; there’s not a place in earth or heaven, there’sContinue reading “Builder of Temples”