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Dear Sabbath Keepers,I have been reading a book by Larry Crab entitled The Marriage Builder. He emphasizes the point that everyone is looking for oneness or intimacy in their marriage. It doesn’t...

“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...

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...

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...

Dear friends,In Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address he humbly wrote, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” Of course, you...

Greetings, and Happy Sabbath to all—My wife and I look forward to these Friday afternoon Sabbath writings.  She will often call to me if I’m working in my office on a Friday afternoon, “Is...

It has been several summers since I can remember one that has had so much precipitation. For the northeastern farmer trying to make hay, it can be frustrating to see a two week forecast with nearly...

I trust as you read this message that your heart is glad. The coming Sabbath is a beautiful gift from a loving God who understands our need for the end of a week’s labor, and the beginning...