For Good or For Ill
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise)’ “ that it might go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” - Ephesians 6:2-3 It is most difficult to enter life without an earthly father! In fact, it »
He Never Let the Flag Touch the Ground
“He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner (flag) over me was love.” - Song of Solomon 2:4 You may very well not know the name, William Harvey Carney, but he was the first African American to be awarded the highest combat award in our »
June Six and ?
“But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”- Luke 12:20-21 June 6, 1944 will n’er »
Charlie and Memorial Day
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” - John 15:13 He came to my platoon from an assignment in Korea, where they had given him numerous Article 15’s and finally sent him to Vietnam as “final punishment.” Article »
Soul Restoring
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.” In the busy, constantly hectic, stress-filled, mishmash of life in the twenty-first century it is nearly impossible for the soul »
Trumpeting the Great and Awesome Day
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of »
Holding It All Together
“...and in Him all things hold together.” - Colossians 1:17 Sticky rice, super glue, invisible spirits? What really keeps all matter in its beautiful configuration? Water in stunning lakes or massive oceans. Mountains and hills in spectacular vistas. Wooded forests. Cactus deserts. Sheer rock cliffs. Tables, chairs, »
This Month at PAYH: Monthly Newsletter, May 2021
I Can’t Believe That Worked “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9 Have you ever tried something »
Living Dangerously
Therefore, let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he falls.” - 1 Corinthians 10:12 Some memories of Vietnam never leave me. They are so sharp it seems like they happened yesterday. A few of my enlisted men had come across what they thought was »
A Life Necessity?
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation.” – Psalm 51:12 Watching the news at the close of most days normally opens your mind to the opposite of glad tidings. Most news is not happy news. Typically it is not anywhere near a lullaby by which you »
The Magnificently Perfect Response
“As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, ‘Peace to you.’ But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he spoke to them, ‘Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See »
