Other Writing

1. I am thankful that God understands me, remembers me, and cares for me and that He is long suffering (15:15). I am also thankful He has a good purpose for my life (15:11).

2. Sometimes we have to take unpopular stands against the majority. "I never sat in the company of revelers, never made merry with them; I sat alone because your hand was on me and you had filled me with indignation" (15:17). This brings to mind a time from my college days when a gathering at an apartment in Washington DC...

As many of you know, genealogy has been a big interest most of my life. This week I learned that this lady, Nancy Luce (1811-1890) of Tisbury, Massachusetts, is a distant cousin of mine. Described as “a strange woman who exalted barnyard fowl to the level of human intelligence and lived and died with hens as her sole companions far removed from all mankind, she shared her home with her feathered friends, and when death severed the tie between them she gave them a decent burial in a graveyard...

I am attending the annual Samaritan's Purse International Coordination Meeting at the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove. My favorite part of this meeting is when staff from around the world give testimony to the amazing works of love that God is doing in their locations and projects and in their personal lives. I am often in awe of the fact that I have been given the privilege to play some small, behind-the-scenes role in supporting those who are meeting people's needs and the sharing...

On any given weekday morning, hundreds of Wataugans make their commutes to and from their jobs in Boone. Most are likely retracing the footsteps of frontiersman Daniel Boone who passed through present-day Watauga County on various hunting trips as well as during his excursion from his home on the Yadkin River to the Cumberland Gap. The premier of Daniel Boone Days this September is a perfect time for celebrants to remember Boone’s passages through our county and the markers that have been...