“Create time and space! Create time and space!” Those words ring clearly as I recall memories from my childhood. As a young boy, my hockey coach would call out to us fledgling skaters to “create...
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Friday Messages
Seeing With New Eyes
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...
Experience and Share God’s Love
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...
The Miracle of Full Forgiveness
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...
Peace Within Life’s Tempests
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...
Rest Comes After Diligence
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...
Keeping the Sabbath well clear
Dear Friends, Does anyone actually enjoy digging? Maybe it depends on where you’re working. I remember being assigned a digging job shortly after moving back up to New Hampshire, and my first shovel...
The Fellowship of Suffering
Dear friends,I have been thinking and reading about suffering: the cause of suffering, the inevitability of suffering, the fruit of suffering. Our choice to sin created suffering, because sin is...
“Bring it to Jesus”
If 2021 has shown me anything, it is that life is unpredictable. Having to juggle many different responsibilities is task enough. Then add on top of this the many times nothing goes according to...
Christmas Eve: He is worthy!
There could hardly be a better time to celebrate Christmas Eve than on Sabbath Eve, could there? As the sun set one evening in Bethlehem long ago, the Sun of Righteousness arose, with healing...
Sabbath Thinking
Dear brothers and sisters,Quite recently I encountered again in my morning Bible reading the verse below, Philippians 4:8 as rendered in the American Standard Version: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever...
We Beheld His Glory
There is something special about it when the Christmas season rolls around. The darkness of Halloween is past, Thanksgiving festivities are over, and now comes a season with a totally...