Monthly Archives: August 2025

(Yesterday, family and friends of Larry Young met in a local funeral home to pay our respects and bid Larry a final farewell. He seemed, at one time, a most improbable convert to Christ. So I share this eulogy, which I delivered in his memory, as a testimony that one should never give up onContinue reading “Larry Young”

“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.” (II Chr. 15:7) In this passage, the prophet of God told King Asa and Judah that they should be strong—and if they were, their work would be rewarded. God tells the Church that same thing: “Every man’s workContinue reading “Glorifying God Through Good Works”

This is a real-life, real-time story of the brother or sister who has a need (James 2:15)—and to whom someone who reads these blog posts might be able to lend a helping hand. Marian Sebastian came to the United States in 1996 from his homeland in Sri Lanka, on the promise of finding work throughContinue reading “A Brother In Need”

Anger unchecked boils over into acts that reveal the worst side of a person. The elder son of earth’s first marriage, Cain, was the first person in history eaten up with anger. (Gen. 4:5) He had disobeyed God and brought to His creator a sacrifice of his own concoction—rather than one that would answer toContinue reading “Be Angry and Sin Not (Eph.4:26)”

On this date, 60 years ago, I grasped the hands of “the most beautiful girl on the face of God’s earth” and vowed to love her “till death do us part.” I never would have thought that, 60 years later, we would be alive to celebrate our “Diamond Anniversary.” But, to the praise of GodContinue reading “A Diamond Anniversary”

The “You and God” blog of August 7 was entitled “My Heroes,” featuring a couple of men who impacted my life through their consistently faithful ministries. One of those was my father-in-law, Marvin Beshears, who pastored in North Wilkesboro, NC, for fifty years, and, who, though he had no opportunity to receive a “formal” education,Continue reading “Pastor Stertzbach’s Story”

I have heard two preachers lately make references to their heroes. One hero was a Bible character, and one a contemporary person whose life and labors were deemed so extraordinary that his admirer labeled him a hero. The dictionary defines a hero as “a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, orContinue reading “My Heroes”

Those were the words of the aged apostle John when writing to his “little children” in the faith—the last of his epistles, penned when he was in his 90s! He was no doubt aware of what Paul had written to Timothy twenty-five years earlier, shortly before his martyrdom, when he said in that second epistleContinue reading ““It Is The Last Time” (I John 2:18)”