Bible Reading Plan for 2014

Read through the Bible with me again this year. I’m switching versions from the English Standard Version to the Holman Christian Standard Bible, and so I’m moving to biblegateway.com for online reading. You can change to any version you want after you click the initial link by selecting your preferred version from the drop-down menu…

The Christian’s Hope Can Never Fail

My thoughts keep coming back to this hymn, by an unknown author, published in 1799 in Gospel Mag. Gadsby’s Hymns points us to Hebrews 6 and Titus 1 as the scriptural source for the text. “The Christian’s Hope Can Never Fail”. We travel through a barren land, With dangers thick on every hand ; But…

Remembering Mom and honoring God

My sister wrote Mom’s obituary which will appear in the local Muskegon and Grand Haven papers today. What a great tribute to her, one that highlights what she strove to be, a woman of faith in God. Arlene Mildred (White) Ackerman heard Jesus call her name on October 1, 2013. Leaving behind her life of…

The ultimate painkiller

My mother of almost 60 years died tonight. Well, her body died anyway. She actually took one last shallow breath here on earth and and took her next breath in heaven. The change was so subtle we didn’t even see it happen, and had to get the nurse in to verify. One moment she was…