YET ANOTHER REASON!

Philemon 6

“I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.”

When I was in high school I broke my right thumb right at the beginning of basketball season. Man it hurt. I had to tape the thumb in against my index finger. I could barely handle dribbling, but shooting was out of the question. So, I decided that since I was a switch hitter in baseball, why couldn’t I learn to shoot jump shots left-handed? So I started practicing shooting lefty. It was kind of weird. As I became more proficient at it, I discovered that though I couldn’t shoot with as much distance as I could right-handed, my shot was softer for some reason, and that meant that my lefty shots tended to play around the rim and often go in. Later in the season, when my thumb was all healed up, I kept shooting left-handed some of the time depending on how I was being covered. And not onl... more

LET OTHERS HEAR FROM YOU!

Philemon 4, 5

“I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.”

I’ve been a pastor in N.E. Pennsylvania, No. Virginia, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Sioux Falls and Tallahassee. Thus, I have friends and acquaintances all over the country. These pick-me-ups I write get sent to a good number of these people either by myself, or, forwarded to others. Actually, from what I hear, they get sent to a lot of people I don’t know.

With some degree of regularity I hear from people because of something in a PMU that hits home at just the right time. I’m grateful to God for His working through these writings/meditations/call them what you will. But what I’m also grateful for is the fact that so many who read them are maintaining their love for Jesus! Like Paul, my heart is warmed and I give thanks to God for both His faithfulness to you and your fait... more