During my childhood, my family vacationed on Cape Cod for several successive summers.  I still remember those trips very fondly, and I hope to take my wife and daughters to the Cape in the future.

I remember on one of those trips that we visited New Bedford, the capital of whaling in New England.  We visited a chapel in New Bedford called Seaman’s Bethel.  This was the place where I first learned the story of the four chaplains in my last post.  The chapel has a memorial to the chaplains, but I digress.  The chapel was one of the last places the whaling seamen would visit before setting sail. (more…)

For many years I have been bothered by the commercialization of Christianity.  I have watched with dismay a local “Christian” bookstore which has made a clear and deliberate transition from bookstore to souvenir shop, a change I did not welcome in the least.  A store that used to sell solid books now sells literature that is (more…)

Tomorrow is the sixty-seventh anniversary of an amazing event in American history.  Several years ago, I read a book by the title No Greater Glory, which tells of this event.  The book recounts the lives of four (more…)

Over the next week or so, the website will receive a new look.  I will be experimenting with different themes to determine which features are best suited for the website.

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3.30)

Charles Spurgeon once said, (more…)


Since I came to Grace Bible Chapel, I have tried to write a hymn for each year’s missions conference, which we call World Outreach Week.  Our theme for the 2009 conference week was (more…)

Until a few weeks ago, I was seriously considering not blogging any longer.  I have been blogging for over a year and a half, and my only regular reader checks the blog faithfully two or three times a week (thank you, whoever you are).

At the same time, I am the administrator of another blog and co-administrator of four other blogs. Why would I continue blogging in other sites and discontinue this one, especially since my wife encouraged me to start this blog as well as given me suggestions along the way.  I began to think about why I blog.  Here are a few conclusions which I reached.  As a rabbit trail, I was thinking about presenting a “lecture” on the merits of blogging at a yet to be determined venue. (more…)


Updated January 17

This is a list of books I have read in 2010.  I will add books as I finish them (if I remember; I wasn’t too good at remembering to include books read in 2009). (more…)


I’ll give a shout out to my wife who is doing a GREAT job at Bible365.  Her website is a daily reading schedule.  She posts (more…)

I have been following a blog that gives daily quotes from J. C. Ryle (pictured).  This blog has been a big encouragement to me.  I recommend that you visit www.jcrylequotes.com and get a daily subscription by RSS or on your Facebook page.

The quote for New Year’s Eve 2009 was excellent. (more…)

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