Author: jempie

Virtually every year since Charles’ death, I have attended Thanksgiving dinner with family members. If the weather was too bad for me to get there beforehand, God has allowed me to be able to travel on Thanksgiving Day.

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey

You can reap great benefits for your children if you listen and respond to them, talk to them, sing to them and read to them.

The Church in the United States, as it is everywhere, is a living part of the Body of Christ. The American part of that Body is in critical condition. How much longer it will live depends on finding a cure for the disease that threatens its survival.

Several months after my conversion, I began dating a woman and shared my story with her. About 18 months later we were married. Tragically, we were only married for four years. The 15 months of separation, followed by divorce, was an agonizing season of my life. Old patterns of doubting God and self-pity began to take root in my heart. I relocated to another state, and quite by accident, heard of a local gay-bar. That night I went back to a familiar bondage. This began several years of off-again, on-again homosexual involvement and lots of degrading, nameless sexual encounters