July 2012-Guillain Barre Syndrome

It’s 3:43 a.m. and I know I am to write to you.  What I mean by that is my heart has finally let me know it is ok to share a few thoughts with you. Most of my letters are expressions of what Jane and I have come to know of the Joy of the Gospel, the Wonder of the Love...

June 2012 Newsletter-WBVN Creed

June Newsletter WBVN Creed “I believe that what I believe is what makes me who I am.  I did not make it, no it is making me.  It is the very truth of God and not the invention of any man…” Lyrics from “Creed” by Rich Mullins WBVN began...

May Newsletter. Rapala.

My grandfather, Parker Holmes, was the postmaster and owned a general store in Palzo, Illinois.  There are no original buildings left in Palzo, although the Springhill Baptist Church is still located on its original location and there have been homes built around the...

Dad Ain’t Mad

On January 8th, WBVN began broadcasting in a New Year for the 23rd time.  I’ve had people ask me over the years where the impulse to start a Contemporary Christian Radio station came from.  It’s not a simple or necessarily an easy question to answer.  There were many...

Christmas Coming Early

Christmas is coming early this year!  Well I don’t mean that it’s actually being moved or anything like that, but I’m going to do a Christmas letter in November.  I don’t usually do ‘holiday’ letters.  To me they are just too common, too predictable, and I usually shy...

Shout My Lungs Out

I don’t know about you (although I’m suspicious) but I’ve been struggling lately, wrestling with my heart and my head.  It’s not the kind of struggling that I expected to be doing right now.  I’m not struggling between believing and unbelief.  Thank God that’s been...