Monthly Archives: August 2023

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” (Rom. 8:14) That verse affirms that every believer in this age can be assured that God leads them by His Holy Spirit. This is not to say that Christians are espousing what some call “extra-biblical revelation.” Not inContinue reading “How God Leads His Children Today”

He was dead at the age of 11, our precious grandson, David Nye. How could that be? He was so active, so much a vital part of this family consisting of Mom, Dad and four sons (but two weeks away from adding a beautiful daughter, and another two years away from the birth of aContinue reading “Jesus Wept”

Author and physician Alan Beck said, “The family is a storehouse in which the world’s finest treasures are kept. Yet the purest gold you’ll find there is golden laughter. The most precious silver is in the hair of Mom and Dad. The family’s only real diamond is on Mother’s left hand, yet it can sparkleContinue reading “The Building of a Christian Home, Part 3”

I want to devote this post to my friends and family who not only read the “You and God” blog regularly but also pray for Ellen and myself.  It was 19 months ago that, having gone to a couple of doctors because of a sore hip that would not stop hurting, I was diagnosed withContinue reading “On a Personal Note”

That is the word that Jude, in his 25-verse epistle, uses repeatedly to describe men who, in the early church, had “crept in unawares” and were “turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Jude3) These deniers and deceivers are commonly called apostates. AContinue reading “Ungodly”

One day in the middle of March, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur, having made a gallant stand on the Philippine Islands in the name of the Allied offensive, strode to a microphone and almost casually told a group of anxious reporters: “The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines andContinue reading “He Shall Return”

In Proverbs 24, Solomon identifies the key ingredients in the building of a home that will stand the tests of trials and time: “Through wisdom is an house builded, and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” Part one of this three-part seriesContinue reading “Building A Christian Home, Part 2”

Memory is a wonderful blessing; yet, sometimes it is a curse, but the loss of it is also tragic. I am the age at which the medical profession asks, once a year or so, if you will come in for a “wellness” test. Part of that exam is reading a short story, at the conclusionContinue reading “Remember….”

William T. Ellis, in his biography of Billy Sunday, relates the conversion story of the great former Chicago White Sox player. On a street corner in Chicago one Sunday afternoon, upon hearing a group of Christians from the Pacific Garden Mission singing and testifying, Sunday took his stand for Jesus Christ, announcing to his boozing,Continue reading “The Great Umpire: “You’re Out!””