“I hate war!” I love the military, but I hate war! I understand and wholeheartedly support that it is an absolute must that we defend...

“Train up a child” The Bible tells us to “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”...

“It happened again.” Yesterday in this blog I wrote these words, hitting on a theme that is always somewhere on our minds, either front...

“What’s the first rule in life?” If you asked that question of Buzz and Ben (two of our sons) they would give you this answer, “Don’t...

Happy Mother's Day! Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Proverbs 31:28 (KJV) Love and...

“The Greatest Mother.” At tremendous risk and with the real prospect of appearing supremely self-serving, I have to say “my greatest and...

“Queen For A Day.” Not really, but it was an enticing concept. It was a T.V. program running from 1956 to 1964, and was a radio program...

“Civil liberties, and the uncivil stealing of them.” I learned a new word today, “Eugenics.” “Eugenics is the study of or belief in the...

“She’s not” Sometimes, economy of words speaks better and with greater effect than those volumes we highly recognize and prize (too bad...

“Knowledge is Power” I graduated from Walton Junior High School of Auburn, Maine in the spring of 1960, heading out from there to my...

“Time goes fast on game day.” Members of the Pioneer Baptist Church have probably heard me make that statement more than once, and it...

When the “Tide” goes out, the beach is clean! In DownEast Maine (Downwind and east of Boston) the tide comes in and goes out on a regular...

His name was Harry Ervin Yarnell, and you need to know who he was. Apart from his parents and close relatives, it wasn’t exactly big news...

Pass the salt, please! Our dinner tables are incomplete unless they are outfitted with the proper condiments, and the one condiment...

Censorship is alive and well in the United States of America! “Community Standards,” “Hate Speech,” and “Medical Misinformation seem to...

He’s as real as Jesus is, and he is a central figure in the white pages of your Bible. In Isaiah 14:12, God tells us that his name is...

It was Jesus Himself who said it. “…….Ye must be born again.” (John 3:7 KJV) The word “must,” according to my friend dictionary.com,...

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright...

"Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well." He was young, and not just strong, but headstrong. He was not Superman, but when the Spirit...

Peculiar It’s that kind of word. My friend, dictionary.com, defines peculiar, when used as an adjective, with these words: strange;...