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“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. Like a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters…Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away… let me see your face, let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely” (vss....

Our daughter, Evelyn, has this beautiful German Shorthaired Pointer named Pax. They live in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and virtually every day they take a very long hike into the hills there in the Berkshires. She and he have logged an incredible...

“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near” (Hebrews 10.24,25). You know when you are baking a cake,...

Shekinah is never mentioned in the Bible. But it does portray the essence, as best as words can, of God’s magnificent glory. Among other things, it means ‘the glory of the divine presence, conventionally represented as light or interpreted...

Devotional-Deuteronomy 5.8-God-shaped vacuum! “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” Deuteronomy 5.8 ESV I have been listening to...

Times and seasons…vary and each has a purpose. Solomon tells us; “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” (Eccl. 3.1). He then proceeds to list numerous times, the first being a time to be born, and a time to die. For several years...

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still did not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father”. (John 14.9 ESV)  Have you heard the expression—spitting image? My dad’s friends would tell me that I was the spitting image of him. We...

Recently, I was invited back to begin teaching at Union Gospel Mission, the wonderful Christian homeless center that I taught in until Covid for approximately 15 years each Monday. Since this was a new group of approximately 150 men, I didn’t know exactly what they...

About a decade ago, before Abiding Fathers was officially launched, a Christian brother and I developed what was to be a fatherhood ministry, ‘Stand up 4 Dads’. It lasted briefly, but the thought has never left me. A few years ago when a certain...

I know the majority of us read and study the scriptures faithfully. Someone asked me one day if, when I was reading God’s word, was I really listening. That’s a very interesting and soul-searching question. Have our quiet times become rote in nature without meditation...