Letters to Daddy

Letters to Daddy

“My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother.  Bind them continually upon your heart.”  Proverbs 6:20 “Mom, what do I put on the envelope?”   Mom looked down at the letter in my hand and the blank envelope.  I had written several...
Boarded Windows

Boarded Windows

I walked passed the house two or three afternoons per week on my way home from after-school activities.  I guess it would be more accurate to say that I ran passed it.  It was a shack of a house with boarded up windows, an old man and two young men nearly always...
Bird Brain

Bird Brain

“What is he up to?” I asked myself, heading down the hallway one morning.  The tapping and scraping sounds grew louder the further I went down the hall.  Daniel was the only one down there.  I opened his bedroom door to find him lounging on his bed, reading a book and...
Having Hope in Times of Fear

Having Hope in Times of Fear

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”  Psalm 46:1  “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, My God, in Him I will...
Touching Many

Touching Many

“Then those who gladly received his word were baptized, and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.”  Acts 2:41    Three thousand people saved – in one day, in one place, through the bold words of one man of God.  Not in one year or over many...