March 2020

The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?       — Psalm 27:1      The centurion answered and said,….but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed….When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that […]

December 2019 Newsletter

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. –-Lamentations 3:21 But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.    –Romans 8:25 She stands in a darkened world looking out to sea.  It could be twilight, or it could be a moonlit night. It is impossible […]

October 2019 Newsletter

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”    — William Hazlitt “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” […]

Summer 2019

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul […]

April 2019 Newsletter

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.   –Ephesians 2:10            Suspended on the sea-to-land breeze, a solitary Man-o’-War bird hangs almost motionless a thousand meters above the borderland between the kingdom of the sea and the kingdom of the shore.   […]

December 2018 Newsletter

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” –Luke […]

October 2018 Newsletter

And He said unto them, “Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while:” for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.  –Mark 6:3           Since the last newsletter it must have been pretty clear that Rosanne and I were […]

July Newsletter

Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.  So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.   –Galatians 6: 9, 10             It was the natural optimist who, when he fell […]

April 2018 Newsletter

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   For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone. The time of singing has come….   –Song of Solomon 2: 11,12           It was the tail end of a very rainy Rainy Season, and it was beginning to look like we might make it through another season […]