‘Twas the night before a real Christmas and all through the house God’s Spirit was not stirring … His Spirit had been doused The decorations were hung with little love but with great care So, the spiritual cupboards were all quite very bare The children were asleep having failed to ...

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. John 10:16 The bringing in of the sheep (God’s elect) into the sheep pen (the church) is why on one silent and holy night ...

“Whoever answers before listening is both foolish and shameful.” Proverbs 18:13 In March of 1863, 18-year-old Charles Appleton Longfellow, unbeknownst to his family, left home in Massachusetts and boarded a train for Washington, D.C., to join the Union Army to fight in the Civil War. Charles was born to Fannie Elizabeth ...