Friday Messages

As we approach another Sabbath, it is comforting to remember that it comes at the end of every week, no matter what has happened on the previous six days. We've all had some weeks that were...

As I sit here Thursday night, I’m thinking of tomorrow, which is the start of the great Roxbury Mountain Cattle Company Rodeo. I can feel the fatigue already.  By the time you read this, I...

There are many interesting and colorful characters in the Bible. Some model what is bad and many model what is good and right. Some, like Abraham and Moses and David, are mentioned many more times...

Proverbs  3:5  Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:  In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths. Dear Friends, I have...

Back in the 1920’s there was a woman living in Auburn, Maine with her five children. One of her daughters was my wife’s mother, Mildred, and another was her sister Jean. Those three were the only...

In his book How Come God?, David Howard relates that soon after arriving in South America, a young missionary informed him of a great wrong done by another missionary who had been many years in the...

Welcome to another Sabbath! Perhaps you are familiar with this hymn, written by Frederick Lehman in 1917. It is certainly an appropriate Sabbath song! Perhaps the stressors of the past...

It sometimes appears that many of us don’t fully comprehend what it means to be forgiven. We know what the Bible says about forgiveness in a sort of mental way, but do we actually fully understand...

Dear People of God, In my part of the country, we’ve had a rather chilly, dry month of April. I recall a memorable spring about twenty years ago, however, that was very different. We had warm...

The Sabbath was set apart by God from the very beginning of the world as a day of rest. After He had completed the six days of creation, the Bible tells us in the Book of Genesis that, “God blessed...