You know, folks, sometimes a name stays with you after the news has moved on. This week it is Marzieh Ebrahimi Shamsabadi. Many know her as Sevda. She is about 33. She is from Bandar Abbas. An Iranian court has sentenced her to death. Based on information from Instagram and...
When Tragedy Strikes A word for the one whose world has just fallen in The phone rings. The police are at the door. The hospital calls in the night. Someone you love is gone. And it feels like the ground has given way. If that is where you are, this...
Well, folks, Dolly Parton went home just the other day, on Tuesday, the 25th of August 2026. She was eighty years old. A lot of us grew up with her songs in the house; some were just country songs, you know. But some were hymns and gospel songs that pointed...
Folks, This past week has been a heavy one. I heard about a friend whose sister died suddenly from a heart attack at just fifty-one years of age. Then the very next night came word that a thirteen-year-old cousin had passed away in his sleep. Two sudden losses in such...
You know, I say this so often, and I’ll keep on saying it as long as the Lord gives me breath. I don’t have any denominational beliefs. I don’t believe like the Baptists, I don’t believe like the Pentecostals, and I don’t believe like the Reformed crowd. I simply want...
Is Mothering Sunday (or Mother’s Day) Biblical? A Look at Scripture, History, and Honouring Godly Mothers Well, folks, here we are in the UK with Mothering Sunday coming around again, cards, flowers, family dinners, all that good stuff. And as believers who love the Word of God and want to...
You know, here in the UK, folks get all excited about this thing called Pancake Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday. They flip pancakes, have family suppers, church events, pancake races… It’s become quite the custom, especially in the Church of England and the Episcopal churches. People enjoy it, and that’s fine...
Well, folks, here we are on Valentine’s Day again. As I was running over Conic Hill last night, thinking about this devotional today, running past the SPAR grocery store in Drymen, the shop is full of hearts and flowers, cards and candy. But let’s take a moment and turn to...
God’s Word on Elam – Past Blessings, Coming Judgment, and Glorious Hope Jeremiah 49:34-39 You know, folks, as we go through the Bible and even in your own reading, we come to these prophecies against the nations, and they remind us that God is sovereign over every kingdom on earth....
Hi folks, in your Bibles, in the book of Romans, chapter 9. Paul, that great apostle, a Jew through and through, says something that always touches my heart. He writes, “I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,...