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Things That Give Me Hope (1)

by Stacey Denny | Mar 6, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I was thinking this week of Mr. Hoban, an elderly neighbor of ours when I was growing up on Broadway Street, there in Danville. He was a veteran of two wars—World War I and World War II. He was so gentle and kind, his activity as a soldier seemed incongruent with the...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 22, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I was up at Life’s Journey this week visiting Stacey Denny’s mother, who’s in hospice there. They have a bookshelf in the lobby filled with religious books, including a book called Heaven, written by a man named Randy Alcorn, whom I met 30 years ago when I started...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (10)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I’ve been thinking this week of my Baptist grandmother, who took it upon herself to make us fit for civilization. Fortunately, I didn’t see her often. When my father and mother were first married, they moved 120 miles away from her, to give themselves a little...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (9)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

When I became an intentional Christian, as opposed to a Christin who was dragged kicking and screaming to church by my mother, I decided to read the Bible. I did that for several years, because a man I knew told me the government would confiscate all the Bibles, which...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (7)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

Well, what a good Thanksgiving we had. It might be my favorite holiday. I like the constancy of Thanksgiving, the timelessness. Thanksgiving in 2024 feels like it felt when I was a kid in the 1960s, the same menu, some of the same people, the same conversations, and...