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Dear Members and Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to ourservice this coming Lord's Day! We are just one week away from Christmas. Connie and I will be spending Christmas in Grand Junction for a few days with our son Dustin and Maria and their family. David and Cecile will be coming up from Tulsa with the 3 girls so it will be wonderful Chri...

Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another. Hebrews 10:25a NIV Wow, that was a horrible accident! Thank God we survived that! I can't believe we made it! These are some common reactions when we look back to a time in our lives when we were involved in an accident or a very difficult situation. But do we look ba...

Dear Members and Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to ourservice this coming Lord's Day! Given the personal events of the past few weeks, I've been concerned about my heart. My twin brother, Dan, had open heart surgery October 15 and had to have 5 by passes to repair blocked arteries. Earlier this week, because of shortness of breath Dan...

The foundations of our faith are solid ground we can depend on yesterday, today and tomorrow. Our Lord warned us that "because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold." And the apostle Paul under the superintendence of the Holy Spirit wrote: "But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.2For people will be lovers...

Dear Members and Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to ourservice this coming Lord's Day! We are just a few weeks away from Christmas. Connie has secured the gifts we plan to give our grand-kids. But after reading the following, I realize the best gift we can give is not found under the tree and it's one that needs to be given all year lo...

Take up his cross daily and follow me. Luke 9:23 The road to recovery is long, arduous, and yes hard. However God is always in control, even after a major tragedy or accident. I am living proof of Hi attention and his greatness. After my auto accident I received some innovative treatments that helped me to recover. People went out of their way to help me. A famous plasti...

Dear Members and Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to ourservice this coming Lord's Day! It is said that when Maureen Stapleton won the Academy Award, she rushed to the stage and gushed into the microphone,"I want to thank everyone I've ever known!" That got a laugh, I'm sure, and everyone understood the sense of gratitude that threaten...

In years past, the word "devotional" would have filled me with a restless desire to do anything else but that, whatever 'that' is. BORING! Who came up with this word!? What does it mean!? I can't say that the feeling is gone for good. Sometimes it creeps back in like an uninvited guest. I sat down to coffee in my favorite place in Austin. Music, voices, some loud, some...

Dear Members and Friends, I trust you are doing well and looking forward to ourservice this coming Lord's Day! I'm anxious to be back and hope you will join us in person or on line. During our time of confinement, I decided to re-read associate justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas' book entitled, My Grandfather's Son. Thomas has been a justice for almost 3...

God thunders marvelously with His voice; he does great things we cannot comprehend. Job 37:5 NKJV Life can change in the blink of an eye. An unexpected life event or an external event can have major repercussions in our lives. Last fall my wife and I were involved in a traffic accident that was not my fault, yet I suffered severe consequences. I was driving on a divided h...