Dear friends, I trust you had a blessed Thanksgiving – giving thanks! I can’t tell you the number of times I have heard a prayer at different meals with these words, “Lord, bless the hands that prepared this food.” I always try to thank Patty for every meal as her capable loving hands have blessed…
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Dear friends, “Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus!” Thanksgiving isn’t a once-a-year celebration for anyone who calls themselves a disciple of the Lord Jesus. It should be a daily reality! I can almost hear someone somewhere saying, “Glen, you have no idea about what I…
Dear friends, I just returned from almost three weeks in Myanmar. I want to thank you for praying and my trip was incredible! I will share a little on Sunday and show a few pictures during my sermon intro! I also want to let you know that we will be having around 12 baptisms second…
Dear Church Family, Recently I was driving to my daughter’s soccer game when I snapped a picture of a Jeep with the license plate “ALLGRNZ.” As a church family on pilgrimage, we’ve been on different surfaces this week (although we’re all heading to same ultimate destination). Louise Winsor is on El Camino Hospital soil where…
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Earlier this year, I got an envelope in the mail. These days, when you get physical mail, people get excited about it. This one though, wasn’t such a good one to receive. Yes, I know, I should do my civic service as a citizen of this country, but I was being…
Dear Friends, By now most of us have heard of someone we know who has suffered loss due to the “raging fires!” Questions abound when tragedies like Houston, Florida, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Las Vegas and now Northern CA take place! Answers however are in short supply! The word “fire” is mentioned 519 times in my…
Dear friends, Today is a tragic day in our nation as we all have heard by now the senseless murders in Vas Vegas! Dreams have been crushed, hearts have been shattered and torrents of tears flow! catastrophic. Today, questions abound afresh but answers are few and far between. What we can do is pray as,…
Dear friends, Patty and I were waiting to board a plane from London Heathrow to Harare, Zimbabwe several years ago. I saw a young man who was also waiting and reading his Bible. I said, “You don’t really believe what you are reading do you?” He said, “yes sir I do!” I said something like,…
Dear sojourners, Life is full of questions! Some are trivial, some essential and some indispensable! How would you answer this question? What kind of people go to “heaven” if indeed such a place exists? A common answer is, “good people go to heaven.” The logic flows something like this: There is a good God who…
Although historians disagree on the details, most agree that President Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves during the Civil War in order to set them free. In one case, Lincoln personally offered to buy a slave from an owner. Kentucky was on the Union side but was unwilling to emancipate the slaves that lived there. In late…