Category Archives: November 2024

Margaret Sangster captured in a poem what most everyone feels in our hearts today: “For the days when nothing happens, for the cares that leave no trace; for the love of little children, for each sunny dwelling place; for the altars of our fathers, and the closets where we pray, Take, O gracious God andContinue reading “Praises This Thanksgiving Day”

(Sixty years ago this Thanksgiving, I wrote the following Thanksgiving prayer and promise to my fiancé, Ellen. It is as true today as then, and I thought it might be time to share it with you all.) Prayer: O Thank You, Lord, for every gift, That life affords to me; With voice to Thee myContinue reading “A Thanksgiving Prayer and Promise”

(My parents celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary 20 years ago this fall; I marked the happy occasion with this tribute that is late getting up on “You and God.”) They were hard, lean times…the worst of times. The “war to end all wars” was past, and the drumbeats were soon to mark the beginning of anotherContinue reading “A Tribute to Ted and Margaret”

Richard C. Halverson, chaplain of the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1995, said of the Second Coming of Christ: “If you could pin people down, I think you would find very few longing for the return of Christ. His return now would instead constitute an interruption of our plans.” (Christianity Today, 1982) That, in spiteContinue reading ““I Will Come Again….””

“And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, neither after him arose there any like him.” (II Kings 23:25) Those words were written about a king whoContinue reading “Josiah—A King in a Class of His Own (10th and last in a series on Old Testament Kings)”

If you achieve every goal, reach the pinnacle of your profession, enjoy every imaginable luxury in life, and leave this world with banks full of money for your posterity—but fail to possess and practice what God calls wisdom—you will have been an utter failure. God says: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning ofContinue reading “The Principal Thing”

And, it is my heartfelt desire that all who read this will, too, see Jesus! Of this Jesus, an unknown author has written: “He was born in an obscure village, and grew up in another obscure village where he worked in a carpenter’s shop until he was 30, and then for three years as anContinue reading ““Sir, We Would See Jesus.” (John 12:21)”

“By the grace of God, I am what I am,” the Apostle Paul, church planting evangelist par excellence, said of himself humbly in I Cor. 15:10—just after confessing that he was least of all the apostles and not worthy to be called an apostle. Yet he was what he was! And, so are you!  YouContinue reading “The Power of 1”