January 2017

    January 23, 2017   Dear Pastor & friends, Thank you so very much for your faithful and considerate support of our labor in the Lord over these many years.  Some of you have given since we started in evangelism four decades ago.  In the last...

November 2016

    November 21, 2016   Dear Pastor & friends, November has finally brought us some winter-like weather to the Midwest.  No, I am not overly excited about it!  It seems that the cold exacerbates the pains in my body and the aches of the ages, and I...

October 2016

October 24, 2016   Dear Pastor & friends, While this letter will hang on the walls of Baptist Churches for the next month or so, our nation will be experiencing the post-election blues or bliss!  I urge everyone to vote.  We never have had perfect candidates...

September 2016

September 21, 2016   Dear Pastor & church, Galatians 6:7 & 8 are probably the two most definitive verses on the law of sowing and reaping in the Word of God.  I was preaching in Arkansas several years ago and right next to the hotel was a strange...

August 2016

August 23, 2016   Dear Pastor and friends, Three Baptist preachers had been indicted for preaching, and as the horseman tethered his horse he heard the words—“…for preaching the Gospel of the Son of God.”  The lawyer had ridden over fifty miles to the court house...

July 2016

July 18, 2016   Dear Pastor & friends, Earlier this month I spoke at a youth conference in Arkansas.  Now I know some of you are more than skeptical about an old guy in his late 60’s preaching to teens…that makes two of us!  However, there were some saved and...