March 2016

March 15, 2016 Dear Pastor & friends, Jesus told His disciples, upon their return from a successful evangelistic crusade, not to rejoice in the results; “…but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20b). I have had...

February 2016

February 24, 2016 Dear Pastor & friends, In I Peter 1:13, the apostle discusses the grace that has been brought to us and revealed in Christ. Because of this amazing gift of God’s grace we are to be obedient children of God “…not fashioning…” ourselves according...

January 2016

January 19, 2016 Dear Pastor & Friends, The past couple of months have been composed of the holidays and complicated by Sandy’s cancer surgery. She has two doctor appointments this week to schedule her upcoming surgery and to establish her oncology regimen. We are...

November 2015

November 20, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, Here in southern Ohio we have enjoyed the mildest autumn that I have ever experienced in these climes. Thank God for global warming! Of course, I haven’t been home much to enjoy it, but everywhere I’ve been it has been...

October 2015

October 21, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, I am preaching a Fall Revival in Statesville, North Carolina. The weather is beautiful and the temperature brisk. Sunday’s services were an encouragement and I trust a harbinger of continued blessing. My plea for this...

September 2015

September 24, 2015 Dear Pastor and friends, Some people smilingly go through life assuming everything will turn out okay. Others, more savvy and cynical see nothing but gloom and doom. The ancient prophet, Isaiah, proclaimed; “When the enemy shall come in like a...

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...