I've been working on this blog post for several weeks now. Sorry it took so long to get it finished! Getaway Mountain Campground We arrived in Vermont on May 2, 2019 to spend the summer here. We are staying at Getaway Mountain Campground in Ascutney, VT. The campground, along with many of the local businesses, [...]
Bible Book Studies: Hebrews 12
I've already commented briefly on the opening verses of this chapter in a previous blog post. In Chapter 11 (as you'll recall from the last Hebrews Study post), the author laid out a list of Old Testament examples of faith which endured through to the end of the life of the individual, but nevertheless the [...]
Bible Book Studies: Hebrews 11
You just have to have faith! We've all heard this at one time or another, and sometimes these words, or something like them, are offered with the intent to be an encouragement, but often feel hollow and empty. The author of Hebrews comes to a discussion of faith in Chapter 11, and to understand its [...]
Travel Log – April 2019
We arrived back in Florida on March 27 to spend two weeks visiting our son and daughter-in-law and Darlene's sister, brother-in-law, and great nephew. We spent a lot of time at Disney and got to attend our church in Lake Alfred. We also got to see the Colorado Rockies play the Tampa Bay Rays. On [...]
Bible Book Studies: Hebrews 10
Here at Easter, 2019, it is fitting that we come to Hebrews 10, the conclusion of the Hebrews author's discussion of the sufficiency of Jesus' sacrifice. As we'll see in Chapters 11-13, his argument will shift from that of bolstering the idea that Jesus is the great high priest to offering encouragement of perseverance to [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 