Posts from August 2026

I’ve had a couple of run-ins with barnacles. A faint scar on my leg serves as a reminder of an unhappy slice while climbing rocks on the Georgia seacoast. Then there’s the barefooted island adventure which did not end well. An eye surgeon friend sat me upside down in his chair and performed surgery on my inferior end. A skiff we had for a time on the coast required routine scraping and painting on its hull to remove these unwelcome…

In a small house church in China, two families stood before the congregation for the weekly Bible ceremony service. This congregation possessed only two Bibles. One was reserved for the pastor’s daily preparation to feed the congregation from the Scriptures. The other copy was sent home each Sunday with a different family for their use. With tears, one family passed the Bible to the next, who received it with joy. They anticipated what the previous family had experienced—a week of…