We lost another good person to cancer this week: Jerry. He was the one we met during the first round of chemo treatments. He and Brian hit it off and they talked everyday that week of treatments. Jerry was also the one I wrote about back in November when I…
Stories
There have been way too many times I have thought, “Oh, that will be fine to wait until tomorrow, I can do it later.” Or, “I might have something to say, but they don’t need to hear one more compliment.” I have some sobering news for you: death is right around…
I was reading today about King Solomon making an agreement with King Hiram of Tyre for logs to use for the building of the Temple. Israel had an abundance of food and King Hiram had an abundance of wood, known as cedars of Lebanon, so they made a trading agreement that…
While growing up, we spent almost every vacation going home to Tennessee where both sides of our extended family lived. “Going home” was the phrase I remembered hearing a lot. Sometime, around age 10, we had to visit the big city of Nashville, Tennessee as my grandfather was in the hospital. We…
This week has been a week I’ve seen prayers answered. I’m talking about having my devotions and feeling I needed to call someone whom I speak with a few times a year. Before I had the chance to pick up the phone and dial the number, the phone rang and…
January is halfway done. Are you ready to quit on your new goals? Or, have you not even made them yet? I like goals and I like lists, but I’ve not taken the time to do my annual list on paper. I have, however, already started making my goals in…
The War Room came out last weekend in movie theaters. It is a movie based on the power of prayer in our lives and how we can use prayer as a weapon to fight our battles. I highly recommend this movie to you if you have not already seen it. For…
Day two of our Israel trip took us to the town of Nazareth. I was excited on many different levels. One, I belong to the Church of the Nazarene denomination and this is why we are called such: Jesus the Nazarene. Two, it was where Jesus grew up after Mary…
It seems too good to be true. This Jesus story seems inexplicable. How could a baby be born to a virgin? How could a man of that day, Joseph, still accept Mary, a pregnant girl, who was carrying a child who didn’t belong to him? How could the Savior of…
Did you know The Shepherd’s Field, where the shepherds were keeping their flocks so long ago, is located just outside of the city of Bethlehem? In my mind, I imagined the shepherds would have a while to travel and I often wondered what happened to the sheep they were supposed…