Praying When You Suffer (Part One) You never go a day without excruciating pain – simply getting up to get a drink of water tortures you. You sit in an ICU waiting room while the dearest in all the world is hooked up to machines in what appears to be a futile attempt to save […]

Learning to Pray I’ve often been asked to pray for people. I don’t ever remember leaving Dick Anderson’s home without his saying, “Preach, have prayer before you go.” (I was always simply “Preach” to Dick). When I talked with my grandmother, she would typically tell me, “Say a little prayer for Mamaw.” I’ve been asked […]

The Funeral I attended a funeral this morning for a gentleman I thoroughly enjoyed knowing. Richard Anderson loved to eat – he always went through the line first at our church fellowships. Dick, as I always knew him, loved flying and was rebuilding a World War II-era plane at the time of his death – […]

Count Your Many Blessings Yesterday, I wrote about some of the “physical” blessings God has given me through my disability. It’s always right that we acknowledge God for the material blessings He richly gives. “Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving” (1 Tim 4:4). […]

The Blessings of God Yesterday, I set forth the biblical principle that God blesses us in times of adversity. “You have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor […]