by Judson I Stone | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog
Please join me on a brief historical excursion that looks and feels like our contemporary pandemic. I am researching an ancestor’s journey in 1898 to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. This great-great uncle, twenty-five-year-old George E. Stone, made the journey to begin...
by Judson I Stone | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog
I thought I was reading today’s headlines during my recent evening Bible reading. Jeremiah’s prophecies in chapters 28 and 29 contain many references to prophesying lies, speaking lies, and believing a lie. The other correlation to today’s news in these chapters is...
by Judson I Stone | Dec 29, 2020 | Blog
Having a purpose for going from 2020 to 2021 is the pressing challenge for all of us. We want the passing year to pass and the New Year to be brand spanking new. It doesn’t happen by simply wishing it, and a lot of people are too tired to make 2021 the best year...
by Judson I Stone | Nov 25, 2020 | Blog
Old men think about eternity. It’s a long, infinite time and it’s nothing new for old men to think about it or the afterlife. The ancient Preacher declared. “[God] has also set eternity in their hearts.”(Ecclesiastes 3:11, NIV) The Rev. Samuel Zwemer told a story...
by Judson I Stone | Oct 27, 2020 | Blog
I watched the movie Defiance last week with my wife. It is based on a true story about an ever-growing group of Belarus Jews who flee from the Germans during World War II. They find refuge in the forest. They got irritated with each other at times under their...
by Judson I Stone | Sep 29, 2020 | Blog
After my brother-in-law returned home from twenty days of hospitalized isolation for COVID-19, I asked him, “What would you speak about if you preached a sermon about your experience?” He replied, “The Holy Spirit.” I asked him to elaborate. He said, “I was alone but...
