February 27, 2018

Dear Pastor & friends, Wow! Whew! Wonderful! Well, I don’t know which word to describe the meetings and busy days I have enjoyed and sometimes endured in February.  God gave two excellent meetings, back to back, one in S.E. Ohio and the other North Carolina.  Many...

May 29, 2018

Dear Pastor & friends, The sweet Psalmist of Israel wrote these comforting words; “Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me” (Psalm 139:5).  The key word to me isbesetwhich simply means to be surrounded, hemmed in or encircled. Since he...

April 30, 2018

Dear Pastor & friends, I am thankful that the ‘winter’ of April is over!  This global warming stuff is a little more than these old bones can take!  The snow, sleet and freezing rain of the month of “showers” was the coldest on record in our area and I think...

March 21, 2018

Dear Pastor & friends, The first day of spring in southern Ohio turned out to be a ‘white-out’!  We got about three inches of snow (that is the most we had at one time this whole winter…so far).  It is a little shocking to my old bones after being in the deep...