“Her children rise up and call her blessed…” (Proverbs 31:28)
She dreamed of you from the time she was a little girl cradling a baby doll in her arms. She always saw you playing around the little cottage in her childhood dreams. She carried you in her body and you made her sick every morning for weeks and weeks. She bore you into the world through intense pain but when she heard you cry and saw your wrinkled face she forgot all about it and wept tears of joy.
She fed …

Bill Calvas is a faithful member of our church. He and a number of his friends spend many weekends a year preaching the gospel boldly on the street. Last week they preached in Detroit during the NCAA Basketball tournament. The Free Press interviewed Bill. He sincerely gave glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. Bill has a deep affection for Jesus and for people and longs to express the gospel and be faithful to the Lord. Here is the article:

I’m in a really good mood today so I am going to give you some advice you will thank me for, for the absolute rest of your life. Get on iTunes and download all the Fernando Ortega you can afford as soon as you can. While you are at it surf over and check out the picture of his newborn daughter on his website. You can listen to one of his beautiful songs here. Now you owe me… Bigtwime.

Five thousand men singing at the Together for the Gospel Conference.
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The Voice of a Savior
Holly sang with the Evangel choir Sunday morning. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was! You can listen to it here.
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My parents tell me that as soon as I was born on November 3, 1958 they dedicated me to the Lord in prayer. From my earliest memories I had an awareness of my great sinfulness. Through the diligent teaching of my parents and the work of the Spirit in my life I began to have a tug on my heart toward the Lord just about five years later. In a child-like faith I called on the Lord in prayer to forgive me of my sins and make me his child. …

I have a little snapshot in the album of my memory of a carefree fall Saturday morning. I’m about ten years old. I’m in Levi’s and a stripped tee-shirt with a red wool ball cap. I’m sitting on the front steps warmed with sunlight. The sky is bright blue and clear. Overhead maples flame with color and wave their branches out over the road. I’m eating a Jonathan apple. Dad is working on the old black Studebaker that he bought from an elderly man in Bellefontaine for fifty dollars. The …

My cousin Di has Facebook now. When we were kids we saw each other regularly. We have our own families now and our own lives so we only see each other when someone dies, which is very sad. It was good to connect on Facebook. I scrolled through her pictures. We look a lot alike. We could pass for brother and sister. I read her interests. One of them made me smile. She has always been a bright girl, quick-witted and verbal. Even as a child she would commonly read …

I picked this up from Todd Wilson’s Family Man Newsletter… which I love:
“Guys, I am dad of 7, well 6 now. I took my 20-year-old to Air Force Basic training today – WOW! I haven’t had a flood of emotion like that since they were all born. We have the 20(b), 14(g), 12(b), 7(g), 5(g), 4(b), 2(g) and I love them all, as I am sure you all do.
I felt regret, more than anything else, as I drove away today. I can remember being …

Sheldon and Jean VanAuken – Jean’s maiden name was Davis so he called her Davy and friends called him Van – had a dream as newlyweds. They wanted to sail together throughout the world. They bought a sail boat with inheritance money and named it Grey Goose. They named their sailboat after a bird that mates for life and will usually not mate again after the death of their partner. Their marriage ended when Davy died in her thirties. Van never remarried. Their marriage was short, but it was …