It was good for me to be afflicted.  –Psalm 119:71. A few nights ago, as I laid my head on my pillow, the room started spinning out of control and it felt like the bed was tipping me over and dumping me on the floor. Fortunately, it was a brief attack of vertigo, and I … Continue reading Blogspiration – April 2019

In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind will see. –Isaiah 29:18 I am prophecy fulfilled. The first part of the above verse happened—to me! March 21, 1961, I was in basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. We were out … Continue reading Blogspiration – March 8, 2019

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. –Hebrews 13:2 The pastor of the church where I was the minister of music called.  “Bob,” he said, “Dr. Dale Oldham, speaker for The Christian Brotherhood Hour radio broadcast, and his son Doug … Continue reading Blogspiration – January 24, 2019

Several years ago, while shopping in a mall in Eugene, Oregon, I began to stagger, and was hard-pressed to make it to a nearby espresso shop where I could sit down and try to collect myself. I continued to have mobility issues the rest of the day, but soon forgot about it. A month or … Continue reading Blogspiration – December 2018

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the … Continue reading Blogspiration—October 31, 2018

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Quote by Joseph P. Kennedy When Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of … men, women and children gathered around him. They too wept bitterly. Then Shekaniah said to Ezra,” We have been unfaithful … Continue reading Blogspiration – August 14, 2018

Thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma … Continue reading Perspective: Which Side of the Door?

You yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, … Continue reading Pardon Me, But Your Attitude is Showing, and That’s Good

Pardon Me, But Your Attitude is Showing Jesus said, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is … Continue reading Pardon Me, But Your Attitude is Showing

Jesus said, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. – Matthew 10:16 Pastor Wingert was away on a fishing trip and I was in the office alone when the phone rang. When I answered, a voice that sounded more contrived than genuine … Continue reading Sorting it All Out