Blog Layout

Healthy Foods To Match The Need

Healthy Foods To Match The Need By John Livingston Clark Did you know there are foods that look like the body part they are designed to nurture and maintain? That’s right! For those of us who believe that each person is a special creation of God it should come as ...

Read More »

Can or Called?

How do you want to live…purposefully, worthily, sensibly, or as the unwise and witless? Maybe you’re too busy to think about this question!But it’s worth stopping to think of your answer. And how should we teach our children to live? Surely we would all answer “purposefully, worthily, and sensibly.” Most ...

Read More »

Obedience

My wife and I have five children, and every year she would run out to buy some form of a small swimming pool; nothing extravagant. Usually, she’d buy a quick-erect, blowup vinyl pool. You know, the type that’s easy to fill up, with an expandable floating top ring. As the ...

Read More »

What Is Your Mission? Part 1

This past April I had the great privilege of being a part of my church’s missionary team serving the people of Rancho De Sus Ninos in Tecate, Mexico.  Our purpose was to love on the kids in the orphanage and help with building projects around the property.  And, as is ...

Read More »

On the Path

My son loved toddling alongside me as we wandered through our wooded property.  Often, though, the path failed to hold his interest, and he would dart off to explore.  Living high in the Pennsylvania mountains, I knew Rattlesnakes and Copperheads loved our woods too.    The cleared path allowed us ...

Read More »

The Voice of Art

It begins deep within the heart of the artist.  There is a whisper, an idea; it stems from the spiritual depth of their being.  It is a voice yearning to be expressed. Through time and practice, this voice begins to take shape under the hand of the one who is ...

Read More »

The Wedding Gown

The gown started as white silk fabric, possibly handed down through the hands of a caring relative or friend. Delicate lace would be the finishing touch, adding beauty to the gown. But in the beginning, to the untrained eye, it surely didn’t look like much! She had no pattern to ...

Read More »

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Psalm 139:13 (NLT) You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. While people on both sides of the issue debate when life begins, the simple fact remains that when a physician performs an abortion a living being ceases to be ...

Read More »

If I am Divorced am I Disqualified?

Jesus said the only acceptable grounds for divorce is adultery and, if you marry again, unless you remarry your previous spouse, you are guilty of adultery (Matthew 5:32, 19:9).  In Malachi 2:16 God says He hates divorce. The divorce rate among Christians versus “the world” is a hotly debated issue.  ...

Read More »