A Prayer for Summer

A Prayer for Summer

Our Father in Heaven, Although the calendar tells us that summer doesn’t begin until June 21, summer has always seemed to begin for me when school gets out and we celebrate the Memorial Day weekend. I’ve always thought of summer as the months of June, July and August....
Missing Pieces

Missing Pieces

In all of my writing, my articles, and posts, and in my book, “What Do I Say When Asked About Jesus?”, I place a heavy emphasis on scripture. If you’ve read anything I’ve written, you have seen how true this is. Of course, this is not by mistake. There are times, as...
2 Powerful Words: “But You”

2 Powerful Words: “But You”

Refuse to Follow the Crowd Recently in church, our pastor addressed the young folks. With passion and conviction, he said, “Your friends may tell you that the Bible is just a book of fairy tales, but you keep on reading it.” He added, “Your friends may call you naïve...
The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room

I have a lot of memories from the waiting rooms of hospitals. As a Pastor, I waited with many people there while their loved one was in surgery. Recently the tables were turned and I was the one in the waiting room. Our children were busy that day and so I sat alone...

Father’s Stories

Father’s Stories Dwight Roth / Roth Poetry  My father had a heart attack in 1975, when he was 65 years old. He recovered and lived for five more years. After he recovered, I realized if I wanted to find out about his life, I needed to ask him now. I took my cassette...