Jul 2, 2026 | Pondering and Kindling
One experience exceptionally vivid in my mind is shared by my wife, Jerry. I seem to always remember it in connection with July 4. We had spent only two days in East Germany, having gone there from three days in West Germany where everything seemed “up” and...
Jun 9, 2026 | Pondering and Kindling
George Washington Carver was born in a slave’s shack on a cotton farm. You know his story. He became a member of the Royal Academy, distinguished himself in science and helped discover countless uses of the peanut and sweet potato which helped salvage the economy of...
May 8, 2026 | Pondering and Kindling
If we want to finish well in our ministry, we do well to look to those who have walked before us. In my studies and conversations I have noticed several I wish to elaborate for these articles. First, they practiced discipline, at the heart of which was prayer. Sister...
Apr 30, 2026 | Pondering and Kindling
Christians talk about HEAVEN as the place where they will live for eternity. ETERNAL LIFE is the life that is a gift of God which comes to those who accept Christ as God’s gift of salvation. Paul uses the phrase eternal life to describe the goal of the process of...
Sep 29, 2025 | Pondering and Kindling
Could you believe it…somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 packed in a football stadium for a funeral? I hardly knew the name…Charlie Kirk. And not just the thousands packed in the Phoenix stadium; a TV viewership of tens of millions. The first...
Sep 26, 2025 | Pondering and Kindling
What a time to be alive as a Christian! What’s going on? What a time to be alive as an ordained minister, joyful in the privilege of serving in clergy leadership for over 70 years Though 91, My praying and pondering seems to focus more on the...
