The month of April is a time when our hearts turn to thoughts of rebirth and renewal. We celebrate Easter, we enjoy family gatherings, we even have more sunshine so we can plant gardens.  It is a lovely month to renew our vision! After the difficult year of 2020, I want to encourage […]

I am sharing a delightful story which illustrates the relationship with Jesus as our Big Brother. I learned to apply it spiritually in situations many years ago. The first week of school was okay for 7 year-old Johnny UNTIL the bell rang for the children to go home. For several days, he had been chased […]

Why Do We Celebrate Valentine’s Day? Did you know that Valentine’s Day began with a prison ministry? In the year 520 A.D., the early church set aside February 14 to remember the heroic death of a man named Valentine. He was beheaded on a pagan altar because he refused to renounce Jesus Christ. According to […]

At the beginning of each New Year, I’m reminded of a spiritual lesson God taught me by a Second Grader. May it also help you walk forward with joy…into 2021. It was 1956 in Long Beach, during my first teaching job. Standing before my desk, with a look of apprehension on his face, a little […]

In December 1995, God made a way for me to rent my own apartment again, and I moved to Temecula. It was the first time I would live alone away from relatives, only knowing a few friends. God planned this place to be my “nest to rest” for the next twenty years of driving hundreds […]

Acts 1:11  “Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.” A miracle healing-experience in 1982 totally changed my FOCUS on life. I felt a “window shade” had been taken from my […]

Many of you know that I love to speak and pray God’s Word over people and situations. I have lived and taught this truth more than 30 years. It has often helped me overcome discouragement.  I also benefit by reading Psalms and those wonderful Bible stories how people encouraged themselves “in-the-Lord”.  This year 2020, the enemy […]

“I have brought You glory on earth by finishing the work You gave Me to do.” John 17:4 We have lived through strange, hard times…but 2020 seems most bizarre for me!  It requires us to make adjustments in every part of our life…both physical and in the spiritual. The secret is to remain “focused” on […]

You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you,  and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.” John 15:16 Many missionaries retire or go to their eternal reward without seeing the fruit of their years of labor. We are blessed in APM prison-ministry-field by allowing […]

Hebrews 12: 1,2…”Let us lay aside every weight…and let us run with patience, (endurance)…LOOKING UNTO JESUS…the Author and Finisher of our faith.”                                                                       The Word comparesour life to a RACE God has given us. However, It is NOT a 100 meter-dash…it is a marathon. If we fix our eyes on present circumstances, we will get discouraged. […]