February 2020

  February 12, 2020     Dear Pastor & friends,   I am grateful for the opportunity to write each of our supporting churches and individuals each month, and leave with you a little piece of my thought life to consider.  A stand-out phrase that...

January 2020

  January 22, 2020   Dear Pastor & friends,   Well, I am writing while the nattering nabobs of incivility are childishly fighting among themselves in Washington, D.C. If my sons acted like these supposed dignitaries while growing up, they would have...

August 30, 2019

Dear Pastor & Friends, ​Well, I have “enjoyed” another month with my unwelcome guests—shingles!  Yes, almost eighteen weeks as of today. I pray someone who reads this will pray this scourge away.  Enough whining, God is good, gracious and kind even in the midst of...

July 2019

Dear Pastor & friends, ​Summer sure has flown by fast and August is filled with our 49th wedding anniversary and then I take a mission trip and revival services in Alaska.  Now that sounds like we are taking separate anniversary trips…but you would be wrong!!  One...

June 2019

  June 25, 2019   Dear Pastor & friends, I have been very busy in the work of an evangelist in recent days. God has blessed spiritually in the meetings and helped me with the physical problems I have encountered over the last three months. I am not out...

May 2019

May 20, 2019   Dear Pastor & friends, Since my last letter and health report, that was not good, I have endured a three week-plus bout with shingles! If Adam and Eve unleashed this devilish curse into the world with their sin, I’m having words with them “if”...