Posts from July 2025

I have had the wonderful privilege of spending six Thursdays this summer with our young people during our Teens and Tagalongs sessions. I want to commend our young people for the way they have come ready to open their Bibles and spend time in a study from God’s word. They have been very attentive and cooperative with their participation. After the Bible study time, they have also been very helpful in tackling needed service projects – that this summer have…

Our world has almost drowned in rhetoric. Many are turned off by it. For too long, politicians have assaulted our good sense with promises no one could keep and no one expects to be carried to completion. Television commercials build up their products so much that we would be shocked if they delivered all the benefits suggested. At the same time people have grown skeptical about religion, too. A lot of words have been generated by folk who never demonstrate…

It is hard to believe that we have reached the last two weeks of July! There have been many wonderful events happening over the summer (Camp Bandina, VBS, Wednesday Night Summer Series, TNT, our Ice Cream & Dessert fellowship) and we are excited about the activities our members will be involved in throughout the rest of the summer. As I write this, we have several families at Polishing the Pulpit – Branson. On July 27 you will be blessed to…

“And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as Your will’” (Mt. 26:39). As the cross drew near, Jesus prepared Himself through prayer for it. He went to a garden called Gethsemane… He had gone to this place often. Perhaps at times He spent the night under its olive trees. He left eight of the…

For long years standing in the light, Successes coming day and night, I lived those precious golden days Of all the winning and the praise.   Now suddenly the shock: I’m old! The “three-score years and ten” have rolled Away, and twenty more have passed Like fleeting shadows, lightning fast!   The flying decades came and went; There was no way to circumvent Their taking loved ones one by one Whose race of life on earth was run.   Oh…