Category: Stories

Harry Dandison Dewey, otherwise known as Dan for short, has been visiting the chemotherapy floor at Rose Cancer Center at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak each Wednesday for years. He never gets chemotherapy himself. The only reason he is there is to bring joy to others. Lines of people sit in the chemotherapy ward, voluntarily injecting poison into their bodies so that they can fight illnesses like cancer. Most of them are alone, in pain or going to be very ill after the treatment. But every week, cheery Dan comes in wearing his sweatshirt and shorts. He enters the infusions...

I was walking down life’s highway a long time ago. One day I saw a sign that read, “Heaven’s Grocery Store”. As I got a little closer the door came open wide, and when I came to myself I was standing inside. I saw a host of Angels, they were standing everywhere. One handed me a blanket and said, “My Child shop with care”. Everything a Christian needs is in that grocery store, and all you can’t carry, come back the next day for more. First, I got some Patience, Love was in the same row. Further down was Understanding,...

ete DiMartino and Rebekah Gregory were both seriously injured in the April 15 attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded 275 others. They survived, but this year has been a trying one. Their love, however, could not be destroyed. “You’re my best friend and I love you.” Pete only started dating Rebekah a year ago, but he knew she was the one. Pete lost 90 percent of his right Achilles’ tendon and suffered multiple broken bones in his ankles. He spent months in physical therapy, learning to walk again. He has also had surgery on a...

At the University of Chicago Divinity School each year they have what is called “Baptist Day”. It is a day when all the Baptists in the area are invited to the school because they want the Baptist dollars to keep coming in. On this day each one is to bring a lunch to be eaten outdoors in a grassy picnic area. Every “Baptist Day” the school would invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education enter. One year they invited Dr. Paul Tillich. Dr. Tillich spoke for 2 ½ hours proving that the resurrection of Jesus...

Lord it was Good Friday, The day on which you paid. Man’s debts you cancelled, man’s sins you cleansed. By man you were betrayed. To reconcile us to yourself, The power of the cross, A holy living sacrifice, To save mankind who’s lost. You shed your blood for all, To bring us into light, That we may look and turn to You, for everlasting life. The Lamb who takes away our sins, Whose truth will set us free, For God so loved, he gave his Son, Such love for you and me. The atonement on Good Friday, the ransom that...