I was touched by a recent patriotic photograph in our local newspaper. The photo was taken at our local Veterans Day ceremony a few weeks ago. Our community is loyal to its veterans. I have written before about how our…
Last week many people remembered America’s history as they celebrated Thanksgiving Day. Probably many of us thought about times past and longed for present days to be more like those were. The truth is that America has long been home…
The Notgrass team gathers each weekday morning to pray together on Zoom. On Monday I asked if anyone did anything special over the weekend. Bonnie, who works remotely from West Virginia, spent Saturday at an annual woodcutting day at her…
Our home had few books when I was growing up. However, like many families in the 1950s and 1960s, we had a set of the World Book Encyclopedia. A quick Internet search tells me that this encyclopedia is still published…
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I have enjoyed an audio book of stories from Christmas past. In a story I was listening to yesterday, a family overheard carols from the church beside their house. They also heard a reference to prayers…
In 1885 riverboat captain Thomas Ryman, who had recently come to a deep faith in Jesus, decided to build the Union Gospel Tabernacle in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, as a place to hold revival meetings. The first revival held there was…
