God’s Triple Play

Spring Training is over and the 2018 Major League Baseball season is underway!  The boys of summer have begun their pitching, catching, hitting, and running and the first games are already in the books.  This year’s edition of America’s favorite pastime has officially begun! The fascination with baseball has held…

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Gethsemane’s Crushing Press

As we prepare to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection, our thoughts should also involve the events leading up to it as well.  It is impossible to have a resurrection without a death and that’s why we must pause at the cross before rushing to the empty tomb. Looking ahead 800 years to…

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Praying On Signal Knob

signal knob Virginia

On the northern end of the Massanutten Mountain, Signal Knob stands likes a sentinel watching over the town of Strasburg and the surrounding countryside.  Its stately summit can be seen from many miles and was used by both sides during the Civil War as a strategic lookout and communications post.…

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The Eternal Divide

Over the last few weeks, winter storm after winter storm has rolled into the northwestern US and blown across the country dumping feet of snow and inches of rain from west to east.  As I write this article, yet another threatens to add several additional inches of snow to the…

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Two Train Wrecks From Our Past

One hundred and forty-two years ago this coming Tuesday, the Shenandoah Valley was shaken from its slumber about midnight.  A twenty-five car Baltimore and Ohio train carrying people, livestock, and freight tragically crashed off the Narrow Passage trestle and plunged ten stories into the chilly creek below.  Eleven human lives…

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