“Let Someone Serve You in Suffering,” by Vaneeta Rendall Risner (pictured above with her husband). See her website at: https://www.vaneetha.com/ —————————————-    I don’t like asking for help. Frankly, I’d rather take care of myself, by myself.    But independence has become a thing of the past for me. Because of my disability […]
3096) I’ll Get By With a Little Help From My Friends Read More »
   One day, many years ago, my grade school son said to me firmly, “Dad, I don’t want you talking about me in your sermons anymore.” My daughter quickly agreed with her brother. “Yeah, me neither,” she said, “I have friends in church. Don’t you remember what it was like when you were our
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    I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say they didn’t like giving money to overseas missions, because, “How do we know the money gets there?”  Here’s how I know.    When I was a child in Sunday School, our mission offerings went to the African nation of
3060) Does the Money Really Get There? Read More »
The Meeting With Joe, by Gary S.  (source lost)    One cold winter morning as I looked out my bedroom window at the gray, bleak landscape, I wondered, What is my life worth?  Where do I fit into the scheme of things? I felt completely overwhelmed by rejection.  I couldn’t see any hope in
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Amy Grant’s 2013 album How Mercy Looks From Here contains the song Greet the Day.  This song was inspired a prayer Grant heard years ago.  Today’s meditation contains the lyrics to the song, a link to the video, and the simple little prayer the song is based on. GREET THE DAY By Amy Grant and Cindy
3045) Lord, Lead Me… Read More »
   My dad died this past Monday morning. That is him in the photo above (taken before I knew him). He is probably about a year old, so it was taken in 1933. My dad told the story of that day as he heard it from his mother. Just when the photographer was ready
Matthew 25:14-10:    (Jesus said), “It will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.  To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability.  Then he went on his journey.  The man
3007) An Ornery Guy Read More »
“Hands and Feet” ————————————- NOTE TO READER: Occasionally on Sundays, I will post a 40-minute worship video (I did several of these last summer, but not since). The video is directly below this text. Below the video on this page is the Order of Service for the worship. Below that is the text of this
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“A Reflection on What Makes True Greatness,” by Annie Holmquist, in The Epoch Times, page C1, June 17-24, 2025 issue. For more by Annie Holmquist, go to:  https://annieholmquist.substack.com/ ———————————    … I recently visited Mount Rushmore. Yes, the heads were impressive and inspiring, but even more inspiring was the meaning behind each presidential carving. I
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   I can recall only one time that I have been without food.  Like everyone else, I have fasted in preparation for tests at the doctor.  I have been ill and have not felt much like eating for a day or two.  And I have cut back on food when I would have liked
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