If you've read the previous stories in this "A Murder in the Mountains Series", you know the heroine Tess Spencer is a plucky, intelligent, courageous, and tender-hearted young woman, wife, and mother who never does anything halfway. She's earned the respect of the local sheriff from previous experiences with investigations, and he wants to…

   We welcome the new year with all kinds of celebrations, observations, meditations, reflections. Some of us have lost loved ones while some of us have welcomed new lives into this fallen world. The gamut of emotional, physical, and spiritual experiences have accompanied most of us along the way. Some will say "Good riddance!" to 2017 while others…

     When they [the Magi] had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."      So he…

                           Are you a goal setter? Do you make resolutions? What are the five things you're looking forward to doing, hoping to accomplish, thinking will occur, or wanting to make happen in the New Year? I'm not a resolution maker nor a goal setter, but there are three things I hope to accomplish in 2018.…

          (Originally posted as "For Women Only . . . Be A Mary") If you’re anything like me, you have an opinion on a lot of things. And you’re not afraid to express it. In the flesh you’ll jump in with unsolicited commentary and in the Spirit you’ll regret some of what…

                                                   With four bestselling contemporary authors writing the voices of four strangely and sometimes compatible characters in Probing (Cycle Three of The Harbinger Series), this episode of the speculative series proves to be both unique and interesting although not completely satisfying. Having not read the previous "cycles" of the Harbinger books, I would suggest it…

   Capturing the essence of family love and heritage.   Father, thank you for allowing us to be in the family of God. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

              Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King!                  

"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,   though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me   one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old,   from ancient times."    Micah 5:2 (NIV)              

  (Originally posted on January 6th, 2017 as "A final word on Christmas".) Your eyebrows might be raised at this picture being associated with Christmas, but I'm going to reproduce a portion of the sermon from the late David Wilkerson titled "Christmas: Resurrection".                                      . . .        When I look into the manger in Bethlehem,…