The Red Back Hymnal

 “Fill My Way With Love”) For a number of years, my suit pockets often revealed something rather bizarre about me.  My social life, to be exact!  Somehow, you just know your “social life” is limited […]

(“There’s A Guiding Hand”)     SUMMER TIME –– Summer is my FAVORITE season of the year!  Period!  Winter is just “Winter,” and Autumn is too drab.  Spring rarely visits us now, for it seems […]

Someone once wrote about their Dad, and in that essay they shared thoughts of him at various stages of their own life.  I believe many of us can relate to ANDalso restate these same thoughts […]

(“Precious Memories”)   “…I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee…” (2 Timothy 1:5 KJV).  Or, as the Amplified Bible says of this verse, “I am ‘calling up memories’ of your sincere faith…” […]

The CHURCH HYMNAL:  “At the Cross”   “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18).   […]

On December 8, 2016 – just over three weeks from the intended January 2017 publication of this article – I entered a St. Louis hospital for major surgery.  My urologist/ surgeon claimed I had a […]

 Bennett Cerf –– one of the founders of the Random House publishing group, as well as longtime panelist on the 1950s to 1970s TV game show, “What’s My Line?” –– once told of a young […]

Each year passes by so quickly when we get multiple years behind us. It seems like no time at all that we were standing in our churches on Easter morning and singing, “He lives, He […]

Many years ago, a song leader – in a church where my parents once attended – stopped the choir during a Sunday service to give cheerful and encouraging words to the congregation.  Among other things, […]