Open in New Tab Here Thresholds: A Line in the Grass There can be little doubt about it now: I am an old man! It has been a hard thing to accept, but the unavoidable truth is setting in. It is unwelcome. I am disposed to follow the inclination of Dylan Thomas and “rage against… Read More »
4/12/24- Growing Old
Open in New Tab Here Growing Old Prov. 15:15 “All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.” This week I find myself testing a pair of hearing aids. The event has triggered in me what Longfellow might have identified as: “long thoughts”. As… Read More »
3/29/2024-We Shall Rise
Open in New Tab Here We Shall Rise For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. I Cor. 15:22 I have reached a point in my life’s journey where I have ceased to be mirror friendly. It is a kind of “I don’t look – it doesn’t tell” relationship.… Read More »
2/23/2024- Summer and Harvest
Open in New Tab Here Summer and Harvest Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, and the summer is ended, and we are not saved. KJV Here is a frightening thought: We pray that it should never be true of us, our country, or of those that we love. God is so kind and good, but… Read More »
1/26/2024-Memories
Open in New Tab Here Memories 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will… Read More »
1/5/2024-A Stranger No More
Open in New Tab Here A Stranger No More Ephesians 2:19 KJV Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; A couple of weeks ago Berean’s oldest female member died and was buried. Her name was Rose Parks. She had lived 97… Read More »
12/4/2023
Open in New Tab Here Galatians 6:9 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. What follows is a light-hearted true story designed to encourage parents still in the trenches dealing with their teens: It was a summer evening in… Read More »
11/10/2023
Open in New Tab Here “…How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” Romans 10:15 Jacquelynne and I met in the late ‘50s at the old Temple Baptist Church. It was then on Grand River Avenue in Detroit. The church was huge and had two young people’s Sunday School departments. These… Read More »
10/20/2023
Open in New Tab Here Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 ESV My father was an interesting man. He would be 117 years old today – if he were living. He was a tradesman owning a country store… Read More »
9/15/2023- Missing Persons
Open in New Tab Here Missing Persons Enoch walked with God and was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24 I love this little verse! I find myself musing upon it. We know that he was the son of an evil age. Perhaps there were those who sought his life. If that were the case,… Read More »
