“Life on this earth is a brief pilgrimage between two moments of nakedness.” (John Stott) Job put it this way: “Naked came I from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away: Blessed be the name of the Lord.” There is nothing new under the sun according to Solomon and that includes…

My question is this: “Are there blessings that come with old age, or do you just keep rehearsing the blessings of the past?” If you know Joyce and me very well, then you can probably picture her smiling and rolling her eyes as I make a point about something by telling another true ‘story’ from my life to illustrate it. My grandchildren…

I remember a young teen asking me in great seriousness; “What about all the people in the world who have not heard about God; what happens to them?” It was in a Sunday School class and we had been talking about heaven and hell. I turned to John 1:9; “That was the true Light (Jesus) that gives light to every man coming…

Is it not often so, that we only learn in part And the Master’s testing time may show That it was not quite “by heart?” Then He gives, in His wise and patient grace, That lesson again with the mark still set in the self-same place. (Frances Ridley Havergal) In the six short passages that John Mark is mentioned in the Bible…