• Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 19

    Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 19

    Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 18 – The Write PlaceUnder the Fruiting Tree: Novella Table of Contents – The Write Place Spring had come again as it always had.  The flowers and the trees were blooming in their rich colors all throughout the valley.  Ruth paced gently under the tree in her red dress with… Read more

  • Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 18

    Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 18

    All around the apple tree several young children were playing.  A pair of chubby, brown-haired boys about eight years old, wearing their jean overalls began climbing the budding tree.  Beneath them several girls ran and played around the trunk.  A little six year-old girl with dark hair wearing a red dress, passed by the old… Read more

  • Godly Manhood

    Godly Manhood

    Jesus being the God of the Old Testament has a lot to say about how different maleness and femaleness are including among the Godly. And as you see, that will preach. It tells us about the designer, and it gives us our meaning and purpose in a culture that hates both. Read more

  • Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 17

    Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 17

    Sarah stood by the tree, a little boy with slightly lighter skin at rest in her arms.  People milled about at the church talking to friends and neighbors.  Sarah, however, awaited someone more.  Read more

  • Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 16

    Under the Fruiting Tree: Chapter 16

    “Best to keep sending them addressed to and from me on the envelope.  What will you write?” Jonathan asked, leaning back with one arm around his wife.  Sarah looked up in thought at Jonathan, then ahead in the distance. “Well.  I guess in short.  Come home.  Stay alive,” she said Read more

  • Under The Fruiting Tree: Chapter 15

    Under The Fruiting Tree: Chapter 15

    The colors of the sun rising up slowly striped the sky above as the two held one final moment before facing an uncertain future.  Read more