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I Used To Have A Friend
Heb 10:25 “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching. NIV
It’s been a very busy year, as I have spent time traveling around this beautiful country ministering...
I just had a very good discussion with a person that has an addiction. They were recently stopped for drunk driving, just over the limit. We talked about how this will cost them a great deal of money, time and red tape, in addition to being on their record for ever.
As we go through life we need...
Though often seen in our area during the spring and fall migrations as it heads to and from Canada, this small bird with a lemon-yellow breast, olive back, and black cap is only a rare breeder in shrubby swamps of northern Michigan. A recent survey suggested there may only be 200 pairs of these...
The Love Walk
Matt. 22:37-40 Jesus replied: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ NIV
Jesus gave us two Commandments in Matthew,...
The Brown-headed Cowbird is an example of a bird that is native to North America but not to Michigan, having arrived here only in the mid-nineteenth century following the clearing of the forests. It is an interesting but controversial bird, one which some people love to hate.
Historically, cowbirds...
Spiritual Hobos
Phil 2:1216 “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Do everything...
I hope you spent some time with friends and family this past weekend. I also hope you do not think the summer has come to an end, let’s pray the fall stays nice until February, and then we have an early spring.
Good things are happening in our community and the US and the world if you look for...
Many birdwatchers are familiar with some members of the flycatcher family—the Eastern Kingbird, the Eastern Phoebe, and the Eastern Wood Pewee, for example—but there are actually more members of this class of birds that spend summers in Michigan. We are less familiar with these birds for two...
This article is called Positively Pinconning, and I think many who read it are trying to stay positive and do a little better today then yesterday. But there is a thing called righteous frustration and that is what I have today.
There are too many people who use excuses. Well, I am to old to visit...
Praying for the sick
Luke 9:1-2 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. NIV
I have been in ministry for over 37 years. I have served as a...