I AM WRITING THIS FOR ONE PERSON. One person needs to hear this. One who may be feeling fearful, estranged or lonely. You once had faith. You believed the Sunday School Bible stories. You sang the songs. “Jesus Loves Me, This I Know.” “The B-I-B-L-E”. You prayed the prayers, and memorized the verses. “For God […]
A Letter Dear One, I count you as dear for you are very important to me as you are to my heavenly Father. What I have to say is something that is best laid out in its entirety to be considered that way. This is something heavy on my heart which I want to make […]
Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask — A Prayer And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 14:13 Lord, Whatsoever? Anything? Really? All that I ask You will do it? But I see there is this one qualification. You say, “Ask in My […]
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3 God is ever inviting us to call upon Him. Our burdens are heavy. We are heavy ladened struggling to handle that which we are not designed to manage in our own capabilities. Then tragedy […]
“God’s in His Heaven, All’s right with the world.” All’s right with the world. Really? Hmmm. That’s not what I was thinking! These familiar lines popped into my head as I was having coffee and my quiet time on the deck this morning. They are taken from a poem that was written by Robert Browning in […]
From my journal, 6/6/23, 8 AM Today the sun is veiled with smoke and particulate matter that has migrated into my neighborhood from the Canadian wildfires up north. (That’s the meteorological explanation, courtesy of my weather app. ) My husband called me from the porch a short time ago, “Come outside, you’ve got to see […]
I’ve been thinking … (Reflections from my heart) Do you remember the comforting sights, sounds and smells of home when you were growing up? I’m recalling kitchen sounds: dishes rattling, silverware jingling, dishwasher humming, a pot bubbling, and sometimes even vegetables burning. Coming home from school sounds: back door closing, “Ma, I’m home” announcing, footsteps […]
MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME! In the months since the accident, I have been reminded of this phrase many times, sometimes in my head, sometimes in Scripture and in song. It’s like an arrow, shot from […]
By Dan Miles The energetic ball of fur scampers along the floor. He rediscovered his cat toy, a ball with a bell inside. He bats it and chases after it. Then, capturing it with his paw, he picks it up with his teeth and parades his conquest around the room. I smile at his antics […]
The Imminency Of The Return Of Christ The imminency of Christ’s return is important to understanding when the rapture will take place. Imminency does not mean His coming will be necessarily soon but that it could happen at any time, i.e., nothing prophetically needs to be fulfilled before His coming for His Church. Throughout […]
How then shall we live? Titus 2:11-14 states: For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God […]
A Pastor’s Notes Concerning the Rapture by Dan Miles Much has been made in recent days of “the signs of the times.” Christian brothers have suggested that current economic, political, and physical events are bringing us closer to the time known as the “Great Tribulation.” In the midst of this increased attention to the “end […]
The bright Kansas sun beat down on eleven-year-old Danny’s neck as he trudged along the dusty rural road. He impatiently waited for the periodic ten-minute break when everyone would sit in the shade of trees, break out snacks and sip tepid water from their canteens. Afterwards, the troop would line up again and proceed to […]
Things That Divide I recently reread Psalm 118:24: This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it, and it got me to thinking: When did we Christians begin forgetting to do this very thing? Now, before you take me to task for making such an accusation against […]