The Hospitality Commands – A Book Review

Through the ministry of hospitality, we provide friendship, acceptance, fellowship, refreshment, comfort, and love in one of the richest and deepest ways possible for humans to understand.  Unless we open the doors of our homes to one another, the reality of the local church as a close-knit family of loving brothers and sisters is only a theory. Nothing distinguishes a […]

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Movies I Watched in 2023

Princess Switch 2: Switched Again Red Notice Family Camp The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Ocean’s 13 This Beautiful Fantastic The King’s Speech Hillbilly Elegy The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The Super Mario Bros. Movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse […]

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Books I Read in 2023

January Single and Satisfied: A Grace-Filled Calling for the Unmarried – Nancy Wilson The Green Ember – S. D. Smith The Black Star of Kingston – S. D. Smith Ember Falls – S. D. Smith The Last Archer – S. D. Smith Old Sam, Thoroughbred Trotter – Don Alonzo Taylor Old Sam and the Horse Thieves – Don Alonzo Taylor […]

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Becoming Elisabeth Elliot – A Book Review

Teach me never to let the joy of what has been, pale the joy of what is. – Elisabeth Elliot I read Through Gates of Splendor in junior high.  Though Elisabeth Elliot’s writing quickly enraptured me in that first book, I made the mistake of reading Quest for Love next and my love of her writing nearly disappeared.  I tried half-heartedly to […]

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