Category Archives: October Posts

A little girl whose family had just moved to a large city became lost.  She went to the corner policeman who began quizzing her but without success, trying to determine where she lived.  Finally, the child said, “If you will take me to church, Mister, I can find my way home.” Church attendance has been on theContinue reading “See You Sunday!”

She and her husband have been serving on the mission field in the intermountain area of the United States for 31 of the 35 years they have been married.  We will call her Diane as that is her name.  She would have been, in her earliest years, the most unlikely candidate for a future missionary because ofContinue reading “All I Heard Was Go!”

A Puritan writer once wrote: “The Christian’s armor will rust except it be furbished and scoured with the oil of prayer.” Once again, our nation stands at a crossroad.  The issue before us:  a burgeoning, bustling land where freedom’s light shines as a bright beacon of hope, or on the other hand a bungling, blighting bureaucratic governmentContinue reading “Our Only Hope”

Dear Mr. Irsay: Dear Mr. Reich: As owner and as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, I address you on behalf of the multitude of people whose lives are impacted every day by what “The Blue” does, not only on Sundays when game time rolls around but on every day of the year when, havingContinue reading “Stand Up for Freedom!”

On September 29, 1978, less than two months into his papacy, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his bed with the book Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A. Kempis, opened and his reading light still on, probably having died of a heart attack. Paul the Apostle wrote to some first century saints in PhilippiContinue reading “What’s Your One Wish?”

A few days ago, “You and God” addressed the subject of riches and the dangers of trusting in them; the sheer vanity of doing so as expressed by the very wealthy King Solomon who suffered from what some have called “destination sickness,” defined as a person “arriving” only to discover he is “nowhere.” (H.B. London)Continue reading “Strangers and Sojourners”

When doctors discovered a cranial tumor in Kelvin before he was five years old, they did not give him much hope to live out a normal childhood.  His parents, trusting God and hoping help would come, transported their little boy to Mercy Medical Center where an extensive brain surgery would be undertaken, praying God would spareContinue reading “The Kelvinator”