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09/29/2026

Well, it’s been a little while since I posted on here. But this morning I’m thinking how easy it truly is to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. We (Christians) tend to make salvation more complicated than what it is. We portray ourselves that we’ve had to give up so much to be a Christian that it scares and discourages those who don’t know Jesus to not even try. There’s that mentality that “I’ve done to much, He could never forgive me for all my sins. I could never live like you “. Friends, it’s not about living like someone else, it’s about forming a relationship between you and Jesus Christ. The first thing we need to know is that God our Creator sent his son to this world through a miraculous virgin birth by his earthly mother Mary who named him Jesus. He later would come to be known as Jesus Christ the Holy One of God, the Redeemer of all mankind, the Savior of a lost and dying world, to grow and minister to the world that God is a just and loving Father to anyone who will acknowledge their wrongs and sinful ways. Realizing that we need to be saved from an eternal death in hell brought about by the fall of man in the beginning of time. He lived in this life to share the knowledge salvation and forgiveness of sins. Then he died for those sins on a cruel cross for no wrongdoings of his own but for our sins. He rose from the dead three days later and he sits at the right hand of God and is a mediator for us unto God. If we can come to understand that with out a Savior we are eternally lost, then the matter of Salvation becomes clear and simple. Not complex as some would make us to believe.

In the Bible,

Romans 10:13- For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

That’s just how simple it is! Now I know you skeptics out there say “Oh, there’s more to it than that”. Well for the sinner, it’s a matter of acknowledging our sinful life, having a will and desire to change, and asking Jesus to come into our life and submitting our@ ways to His Way.
Jesus tells the sinner to repent. Repentance is an action of remorse. Be sorrowful enough of our sins, that we change from our sinful ways. Look at how God dealt with a very sinful city in the old days named Neneveh.
Jonah 1:1-3 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Let’s fast forward a little bit.

In Jonah chapter three, Jonah reaches the city and begins to proclaim the warning that God sent him there to do. Jonah cries to the people that God has had enough of their wickedness and in forty days He’s going to overthrow the city. The people of Neneveh believed God and began to pray and seek for forgiveness and mercy. The bible says that “God saw their works that they turned from their evil way. So God spared the city. Repentance is not just being sorry for your sins, but it’s changing from living a sinful life to living a life in Jesus Christ. So true repentance brings about change. So you skeptics are right in the sense that it’s not just calling on the name of the Lord. But it starts there. Some people are not sorry till they get caught. But when we are sincerely sorrowful for the wrongs we’ve done in life, we will change our ways to His way, REPENT. If we are not willing to change, then we are not truly sorry for our sins.

Luke 6:46- And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

So when we are tired of our sinful life and we want to make a change, then we come to do what the Jesus Christ tells us, Repent and be baptized!

Acts 2:37, 38- Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what
shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

The promise of His forgiveness, His mercies, His salvation, the in-filling of the Holy Ghost, and everlasting life is ours! But only, if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior.

Repentance- changing from our ways to His way. Surrendering our lives for His honor and glory through us.
Baptism- buried with him through the watery grave to rise and walk in newness of life.

Romans 6: 1-6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

So here is the simplicity in Christ
First, we acknowledge that we are a “sinner” and that Christ came to save us from our sins.
Secondly, we Repent of our sins.
Thirdly, we accept Christ into our lives to be our Lord and Savior.
Fourth, we are born again! Not of natural birth but a spiritual birth through water baptism. We bury our old man in the grave of water and rise a new man to walk in “newness of life”. That spiritual birth.
Jesus says “Ye must be born again “

John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

You’re going to trials! But you’ve got to learn to crawl before you can walk. Stay the course!

Have a blessed day! And walk In His Presence daily.

04/26/2026

Today is a bittersweet day. My dad’s birthday is today as well as one of my grandson’s birthday. Dad would’ve been 88 today and Parker is 16 today. Dad died four months before Parker was born. The Bible speaks of one generation passing and another generation coming on.
Ecclesiastes 1:4- One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

In Job 7:6 the writer says “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle…”. Many says that “time is swiftly passing by”, but in reality time is carrying us right along with it. I’ll be sixty eight my next birthday and I can tell that time is taking its toll on me. I can’t do many of the things I used to because time has chiseled away at my health. There’s an old cliché that “my get up and go has got up and gone”. Amen to that! There are so many cliches said about growing older. Another one is this “a bad day above ground is better than a good day below ground any day”. Solomon, one of the wisest men to live says in Ecclesiastes 12:1- Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

There’s a song that comes to my mind and it goes like this

🎼In my childhood days I was young
and strong
I could climb the hillsides all day long
Now I’m getting old, my steps are
slow
Time has made a change in me.

While you have time, please take a n account of your life. If today was your last day, how would you spend it? It very well could be! Make each day count for good. We don’t have the promise of tomorrow. When my life has ended, my desire is to hear those loving words from our Lord, “Well done thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joys of thy Lord”

Be blessed today! And walk In HIS Presence!

04/13/2026

I haven’t posted much on this page in a while. As I begin my week I want to say to you that God Loves You! Regardless of what you may have done or what you’re doing, turn to the Lord. The psalmist David says “we all like sheep have gone astray”. The chief shepherd (Jesus Christ) is wanting to save us from the snares and devises of satan. The pasture may look greener on the other side, but I promise you there is a hidden snare somewhere. There’s a disguised pit that satan is eager for you to fall into. Remember this, if satan has you, he’s not after you! He’s after those he don’t have. Be as the apostle Paul says in the book of Ephesians, “Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Take unto you the WHOLE armor of God”. My friend, it’s not hopeless, it’s not helpless, but it’s a fight you can win if we only turn to Him. What we see today in this world is not new, it’s only the signs of the times. If you’ve ever had in your heart to want to go to heaven, to live eternally, then please seek for that desire again. Time is running out on us. Today, if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts! Today, is the day of salvation! There’s still time! Work while it is day, for night cometh when no man can work! There’s a spiritual darkness hovering over this world. We are living in the “evening time”, the sun is almost set. While we have time, while we have opportunity, be saved today! WE DON’T HAVE THE PROMISE OF TOMORROW! We live one breath at a time.
Be blessed today and walk IN HIS PRESENCE!

07/15/2025

Over the past couple of weeks my friends and family has felt much grief for the passing of loved ones. We know that just as there is life, there is also death. There is “natural life and natural death”, “spiritual life and spiritual death”, and there is eternal life and eternal death”. The apostle Paul says that “As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement.”
We grieve in the passing of a loved one or friend, and that’s the natural response of humanity. The thing we need to realize is that death is not the end. If a person knows Jesus Christ as their Saviour, then death is only a means of transportation from this life to eternal life. This makes us to rejoice for that loved one who has passed on! Psalms 116:15-Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
We know we shall meet them again at the end of this life.
1 Thessalonians 4:13- But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
On the other side of the coin is to die not knowing Jesus. To die in our sins would cause us to receive eternal death at the end of this life. It’s imperative that we come to know Jesus. To be saved by His grace.
To live in this natural life is not enough. We need to take our natural life and give it to Jesus who gives us spiritual life in this world and ultimately gives us eternal life in the world to come.
John 5:24 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Through Jesus Christ we can pass from spiritual death (life of sin) to spiritual life (life in Christ Jesus). There is a reward for each of us at the end of this life. You will either receive eternal life or eternal death.
Romans 6:23- For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Revelation 3: 20,21- Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
If you’re reading this and don’t know (truly know) Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, please find you an altar somewhere and invite Jesus into your life. You may not know exactly what to say but let me encourage you to say “Lord I acknowledge that I am a sinner and without you I am nothing. I repent of my sins and invite you to come into my life as my Lord and Saviour. Help me each day as I stumble to be strengthened in you by your word that I may be steadfast in my walk with you”.

God bless you each day to walk “In HIS Presence”!

12/09/2024

Well, Christmas Day is almost here, but the excitement is already going strong. The hustle and bustle of shopping is moving rapidly along from Black Friday to Cyber Monday and every other name that can be put on a sale day. The commercialism of such an event is overwhelming to say the least. But wait! What is Christmas really about? We know the Bible account of the first Christmas Day, how that Christ Jesus was born in an ox stall and laid in a manger of hay for his bed. The town was so busy and crowded with all the people coming in to pay their new tax that all the inns were filled. Not a room could be found. Today is not much different than long ago. Airports are full, highways are full, restaurants are full, and hotels are full, stores are packed to capacity. Yet, it’s for a different reason. People don’t mind paying the sales tax on items of choice. People will go in debt for the coming year(s) just to get that pricey gift. More and more families are finding it hard to find the time to spend with one another. Life is just to busy. But, life is also very short! Find time to embrace the Christmas holiday in the manner in which it was created. To seek the Christ, the Savior, the Redeemer of man. To bring the gift of our hearts to him, to be faithful, to sing joy to the world, to proclaim glory to God in the highest, and to share the good news all over the world of a king who was born in a stall, raised as the son of a carpenter, persecuted and reviled because of his doctrine of a new and living way, and in the end crucified to silence his voice and make an end to such blasphemy. But three days later, this Christ, this man named Jesus came out of that tomb with all power both in heaven and in earth. The power to give eternal life to all who will seek him! So for our soul’s sake, let us return to the true reason for the season and seek the Christ of God, to bring our hearts to him, to accept him as the King of kings, and Lord of lords, to share his message to the world as Paul so graciously put it,

1 Timothy 1:15
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Be saved today while there is time. Make room for him in your heart and bring him the gift of your life. And it will be a Merry Christmas.

And walk InHis Presence daily!

11/29/2024

Do you know when the first Thanksgiving was celebrated?
1621 at Plymouth Rock for the first year’s harvest of corn. The pilgrims celebrated it with the Native Americans of that region whom they had befriended. The Indians brought deer and the pilgrims offered fowls that had been hunted. Not for sure it was turkey (ha ha). There were other vegetables as well such as the corn the Indians had shown them how to plant and harvest.

Do you know when Thanksgiving became a national holiday?
It was declared to be by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.

Even though we celebrate the giving of thanks the last Thursday of November, everyday should be lived with Thanksgiving.

1Chronicles 16:34
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 30:4
Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his,
and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Psalms 92:1
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

Philippians 4:6
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

2 Corinthians 9:11
Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

These are just a few of the many scriptures in the word of God that show us that we should continually offer thanksgiving to our Lord for his bountiful blessings and mercies.

As we celebrated the holiday yesterday, we had all the trimmings. Thanks to those who prepared the feast. 22 of us as family were able to eat together. Plus my youngest son and daughter in law fed some people who were working on a new house next door. So close to 30 people ate with several plates to go for those who were unable to gather with us. We are blessed!

So be thankful daily for all His blessing towards you and yours.

10/22/2024

Our lifestyles. Our morals. Our values. Our priorities. However we choose to live, we are impacting the lives of our children. We are called to teach our children God's way and to live our lives so that they may learn Christlike behavior from our actions. If we obey God and walk closely with Him, He promises that our children will be happy.
Proverbs 20:7-
The just man walketh in his integrity:
his children are blessed after him.

This past Friday I reached a milestone in my life. On April 26th, 1974 (a Friday as well) I was ordained as a minister. ...
04/29/2024

This past Friday I reached a milestone in my life. On April 26th, 1974 (a Friday as well) I was ordained as a minister. Last night my former church family, along with my present church family, along with my wife and family honored me for those years of service. How thankful I am to have been called into the ministry, although many times I felt unworthy. Thank God for Grace!

01/10/2024

Well today is “hump day”! In the workforce it’s the middle of the week and we look so forward to Fridays. But what about that “looking forward to Sunday” our privilege and opportunity to go to the Lord’s House, to get our “praise on”, to absorb the word of God, to forget about everything else going on in life and focus on our spiritual growth, to draw strength from a fellow traveler. There’s so much more to Sundays than just the first day of the week. Yes, it’s a day of rest. But I find rest when I’m at church. I find comfort, I find release and refreshment.

Psalms 122:1- I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

I’m thankful for our church video ministry, but more thankful to be able to attend. It’s just different ( for me anyway).

Be blessed as you walk daily In HIS Presence!

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