Here are articles excerpted from my newsletters. Most of the articles are short, so I hope they will be easy and encouraging to read. You don't have to have PDF to read these articles. Blessings to you as you read.

Following is a short, yet foundational article to start with.

One Calling

The following article presents 63 sincere questions related to "end times." Be challenged and encouraged as we all seek to hear personally from God. Oh to see Christ face to face! For those who do not have Adobe Acrobat for reading PDF files, I have included the standard web page format (HTM file). Blessings!

Could It Be? (HTM file)

Could It Be? (PDF file)

Following is one of the most foundational articles I may ever write!

What is THE message?

Following is a compilation of 30 of many fears Christians have of the freedom we have in Christ. The fear of freedom is from our old ways of thinking. This article also includes truths that can set us free from the fear of freedom! These truths are grounded in the foundational truth that through the cross and resurrection of Christ, we have already been completely set free! God through His revealed truths renews our minds to this reality of freedom.

Fears of Freedom

Following are notes I have compiled for ministering to several young woman with eating disorders. These notes only scratch the surface, but I hope they might shine hope for those who have loved ones with these disorders.

Anorexia and Hope

Grace is soooo much more than the acronym God's Riches At Christ's Expense. I hope the verses in Grace is a Person will absolutely thrill you!

Grace is a Person!

Following is a song written by my wife (Joy) a few years ago in bed from yearning to cope with yet another long night with chronic pain.

Jesus Loves Me (by my wife Joy)

The Christ-mas Message

Shepherds Yesterday and Today

Holiday Greetings

Holiday Movie and Holy Words

Following are articles from 2000 through 2005.

Hurricane Katrina - judgment or hope?

Powerful Meekness after a Hurricane

The Sewage Pond

Commitment Made Perfect in Weakness

Brokenness

True Healing

True Faith

A One-Word Sermon: "Paul"

You Listened to Me

Beholding Christ

Transforming Grace

Life Nurtured through Obedience

Life Nurtured through Evangelism

I lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for most of my boyhood. My father took me to some New York Yankee Spring training games and I became a big fan of the Yankees, especially a humble yet great second baseman from South Carolina, Bobby Richardson. Did you know Bobby placed second to Mickey Mantle for American League MVP in 1962? Did you know that Bobby still holds the record for most RBIs in a World Series? Did you know that Bobby hit two triples in a single World Series game?

Bobby's biography had a big influence on me...it was the first time I had heard of someone who, in my eyes as a little boy, had it all yet spoke of a personal relationship with Jesus. I wanted to grow up to be just like Bobby Richardson. Read "From Hero to Brother" to see how, by God's grace, I did become just like Bobby Richardson.

From Hero to Brother

Excerpt from the biography The Bobby Richardson Story

(Fleming H Revell Co, 1965)

We must have a purpose in life, and that purpose should be to please God – to know Him, to love Him, to walk with Him in our daily lives. Baseball is a profession full of temptations, just as other professions, and it is a challenge to lead a Christian life in the midst of it. But I take my stand on a Bible verse that has strengthened and challenged me because I know to claim it means a completely surrendered life:

I am crucified with Christ;

nevertheless I live, yet not I,

but Christ liveth in me;

and the life which I live in the flesh

I live by the faith of the Son of God,

who loved me,

and gave Himself for me.

(Galatians 2:20)

This is how all things – home runs and costly errors – “work together for good” in my life (Romans 8:28). It’s because He’s in charge. It’s because I love Him and want to please Him in every possible way. And that’s why He doesn’t need my successes to glorify His name. He can do it, perhaps even better, when I fail.

Click on "Mickey's testimony" to read (PDF file) how Mickey Mantle shared his new heart in a precious way with Bobby Richardson just before Mickey died in 1995.

Mickey's testimony