October 2021

    October 26, 2021     Dear Pastor & friends in the faith,   Wow!  What a few weeks of difficulty and distress since my last letter.  I did go to Arlington, Texas and could hardly preach on Monday night.  No voice!  I got sicker and...

September 2021

September 30, 2021     Dear Pastor & friends in the faith,   A weary, old soldier is writing you this day.  I started a meeting the first week of September after having knee surgery on the Friday prior to the Sunday!  Hey, I can preach with...

August 2021

  August 25, 2021   Dear Friends,   I just saw a bumper sticker in a parking lot today, it read: “If true things get better with age—I must be magnificent!”  I don’t know if that is a fact…but it did bring a smile to my heart.   Meetings have piled...

July 2021

July 28, 2021   Dear Friends,   I was blessed to be a part of the belated memorial service for Bro. Robert V. (Sammy) Allen this month.  The auditorium was nearly full on the 12th and it was a great encouragement to all of us in attendance and a tremendous...

June 2021

June 28, 2021     Dear Friends,   Elihu seemed to be the most significantly insightful, the most spiritually minded and the wisest counsellor during Job’s dilemma, disaster and defeat.  However, when God spoke out of the whirlwind in chapter 38, He...

May 2021

    May 25, 2021   Dear Friends in the Faith,   Well, it was great to get back to two churches in the South that I had preached for annually, one since 1976!  I am thankful to be busy in the work of the Lord.  There have been some saved and one...

April 2021

April 28, 2021   Dear Pastor & friends,   The toils of the day keep us pressing on until ‘Pay Day.’  The reward for the faithful servant of God is not the fading wealth of this world, but the hard currency of a ‘Well Done’ from our Saviour’s lips.  As a...

March 2021

  March 24, 2021   Dear Pastor & friends,   Finally, the warm days of Spring have arrived in the Ohio Valley.  Its welcome mat of crocus, daffodil, tulip and even dandelion blooms make smiles sneak from our hearts and bring hope that Winter has...

January 2021

    January 30, 2021     Dear Friends in the Faith,     The days of great concern and diabolical machinations are upon us; and full-throated adversity and resistance from high places bodes our future.  If it were not for the Lord and His...

February 2021

        February 24, 2021     Dear Pastor & friends,   Well, February 2021 has just about dwindled down into the dustbin of life.  The days of our lives are held firmly in the hand of God and His divine will is all one should...