“Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45
I tend to grumble when I don’t get my way. Thankfully, I’m learning how to overcome that pesky demon named Grumbler. Just as joy is the overflow of a thankful heart, complaining is the overflow of an ungrateful heart. Grumbler, that minion of satan is defeated when I choose to be thankful. “Oh give thanks... Continue Reading →
My father-in-law Don was such a loving man. A simple chorus he taught me years ago has become my heart’s prayer. The lyrics are: “Let Your Love flow through me. Let Your love flow through me. Make me a blessing Lord wherever I may be. Keep me pure. Keep me clean, so that You may... Continue Reading →
Someone posted online that racism and Christianity are interwoven. There is some slight truth to that, depending on how you define Christianity. Unfortunately, not everything that calls itself Christian is Christlike. Satan loves to masquerade as a Christ follower. The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass had the wisdom to see through the devil’s disguise. He labeled... Continue Reading →
I weighed 129 pounds in this 2020 photo due to a debilitating illness that baffled the doctors. After many tests, their only guess was, "We think you have bacteria in your heart growing on an old pacemaker wire that we are afraid to remove. You must take antibiotics for the rest of your life." Not... Continue Reading →
If your home is your castle, my wife and I live in a castle made of metal. Previously a metal barn, we converted it into a barndominium, or "barndo" as some like to call it. During the building of the barndo the Lord often reminded me of a passage of scripture warning His children to... Continue Reading →
My father Virgil served in World War II with the U.S. Army tank destroyers. I remember the colorful arm patch he saved that showed their motto: Seek. Strike. Destroy. Long before that war, the Son of God also had a seek, strike, destroy mission that would change the world. Jesus Christ came with a mission... Continue Reading →
My sweetheart and I have been married 45 wonderful years. Our wedding day was the happiest day of my life. Marci’s beauty overwhelmed me then— and it still does! We’ve had our struggles along the way but we knew from the start that a truly successful marriage would require tapping into a love greater than... Continue Reading →
An alarm inside my chest has gone off every morning this week, telling me it’s time for surgery to have my defibrillator battery replaced. I hope someday they can invent a rechargeable battery. Someone suggested they put a solar panel in my head! We all require electricity flowing through our hearts to keep us alive.... Continue Reading →
Many of my closest friends are blessed with more melanin in their skin than me. Though I pale in comparison to them, they love me just the same. We’ve learned to look beyond ethnicity to what’s really important...God’s overwhelming love for us all. Satan works to divide us by race. Jesus came to destroy the... Continue Reading →
My in-laws just celebrated 73 years of marriage. Marci and I just celebrated 45 years together. The longevity of our marriages didn’t come from reading a marriage manual. The only manual that kept us together was Emmanuel. Christ’s unending love is the cause of our unending love. “We love because He loved us first.” 1... Continue Reading →
