Back when I was a girl, my grandparents were good solid hill people, with solid ideas about right and wrong and what was proper and what wasn’t. My grandpa had fought in World War I and he loved his country. They’d come up to visit us over the Fourth of […]
(Mark 12:41-44) Do you remember the story of the time Jesus and His disciples visited the Tabernacle and stood watching the people giving gifts? There was this big trunk with a hole in the top. The people dropped their offerings through the hole and they made a satisfying thump in […]
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins. (Ephesians 2:1) There is a pastor named Morris Venden who tells this parable: A group of medical students got together to study a cadaver (a cadaver is a dead body). They gathered around the cadaver and began studying with alacrity and […]
Margaret was bored. Really bored. She was sitting on the front porch swing, idly going up and down and looking longingly across the street at the park. The park was a wonderful place, with swings and a slide and a merry go round and a small creek running next to […]
Zacchaeus was a wee little man… (and you know you hear the tune in your head from when you went to vacation Bible school or Sabbath school). For some time, Zacchaeus indeed was small. He was an employee of that society’s IRS. That wasn’t his problem. He went a bit […]
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. (John 16:33) The peace of God – is that simply a dream we have? An old song my dad […]
Back when my children were small – they’ve all grown now – we lived across the way from my parents. We had four children and several pets. Dan traveled in his work and the children and I would be alone for several days at a time. We got along quite […]
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. (2nd Timothy 3:16) The old pastor had loved his New Testament and used it for so long that the cover was tattered and torn. Yet he had marked so many of […]
Anna sat next to Mommy and Daddy in church and watched with big eyes while Pastor Michaels baptized Old Mr. Jenkins and his wife. Everyone seemed happy and sang between the people being baptized. “Mommy, why are they dunking them like that?” she whispered. “They aren’t getting dunked, it’s called […]
