“Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45
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 →
Our backyard faces Pikes Peak. When the morning sun rises and kisses the mountain, it's face is breathtaking. Likewise, when Jesus the risen Son kisses a person, their face becomes gloriously radiant. Sleeping Beauty was awakened by a kiss. So were we. Man didn’t invent kissing. God did. Five times the apostles tell the church... Continue Reading →
A dear friend whose life changed remarkably after we baptized him told me months later, “I left the old me at the bottom of the pool. I hated that person.” Baptism really is a death, burial and resurrection. What we are saying when we choose to be baptized is, “I'm tired of living for myself.... Continue Reading →
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time to when our girls were little. The world seemed a better, kinder place back then. The world today is so different. Kids are being forced to doubt their gender. No one in their right mind trusts the government or the media anymore. Corrupt leaders, due to... Continue Reading →
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