August 2015

August 24, 2015 Dear Pastor and friends, August has been an anniversary month for us. I preached the last Sunday morning of a week-long celebration of my father’s 60th year as pastor of Parker Memorial Baptist Church in Lansing, Michigan. Sandy and I observed our 45th...

July 2015

July 20, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, I am sitting in the Detroit Airport heading home from a prayer conference I spoke at in Peoria, Illinois. If there ever was a need for God’s people to get under the burden of prayer – it is NOW! A time of personal prayer,...

June 2015

June 29, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, The Lord is good and His continued presence presides like a divine buffer between the chaos of life and His peace that passes all understanding. The longer I live, the more distant I grow beyond the foolishness of American...

May 2015

May 26, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, I am a voracious reader and am engrossed in two or three books at a time, most of the time. I love old books and found one in a church library recently about a missionary that was just thrilling. Every chapter began with a...

April 2015

April 21, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, Finally some decent weather accompanied by green grass, budding trees and flowers! I even got bit by a snake while pulling dandelions in the flower beds last week! Yes, spring has arrived. I can do without the serpents though!...