Homestead Homilies
eBook - ePub

Homestead Homilies

  1. 116 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Homestead Homilies

About this book

Relive through reminiscing and remembering, a Maine pastor's recollections of boyhood experiences that turned into a minister's messages in old age. After five decades (Barry's first message was preached in 1966), travel back in time with a lifelong Maineaic to his home place, the Blackstone homestead of Perham, Maine. What sparked these homilies was his inheritance of seven acres of the family farm, homesteaded in 1861, and the receiving of his grandparent's house built in 1924 at the death of his Uncle Paul. You will probably come to the same conclusion as this coastal Maine pastor--that his seminary training began long before he attended a Bible school in South Carolina in the early 1970s. Flash back with him to the 1950s and 1960s when spiritual lessons were everywhere on his rural potato and dairy farm. Pastor Blackstone didn't know it then, but realizes now that he was surrounded by family Bible teachers and friendly Biblical instructors that eventually would inspire this series of sermons. Homestead Homilies is a collection of scriptural observations inspired by a dog named Rover, an uncle named Read, a moonlit night, a barnyard hedge, a day plowing, a grandmother's helpful hand, a bee hive, a simple prayer, a sparrow's song, and many more simple events in a past age where homilies were being preached and now eventually heard. It is the author's prayer that these simple sermons will provoke the reader to remember long lost messages from their distant past.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction: Homestead Homilies
  3. 1: Plowing Straight
  4. 2: Creation’s Groan
  5. 3: Dawn’s Dawning
  6. 4: Sad Succourer
  7. 5: Grandmother’s Help
  8. 6: Morning Song
  9. 7: Sacred Sanctury
  10. 8: Weathering Weather
  11. 9: Plodding Plodder
  12. 10: Country Calm
  13. 11: Peaceful Place
  14. 12: Blessed Hope
  15. 13: Farmer’s Psalm
  16. 14: Vivacious View
  17. 15: Perham Prayers
  18. 16: Family Preacher
  19. 18: Blackstone Beekeeper
  20. 19: Chickadee Chorus
  21. 20: Farm Faith
  22. 21: Busybody Bees
  23. 22: Four Skies
  24. 23: Individual Influence
  25. 24: Worthy Walk
  26. 25: Fanner Bees
  27. 26: Young Giver
  28. 27: Farming Farmer
  29. 28: Admirable Afterglow
  30. 29: Good Gardener
  31. 30: Wonderful Wonder
  32. 31: Archer’s Arrows
  33. 32: Land Lamentation
  34. 33: Dale Dew
  35. 34: Town Tragedy
  36. 35: Homestead Hedge
  37. 36: Sparrow Sounds
  38. 37: Lesser Light
  39. 38: Morning Moonset
  40. 39: Homestead Health
  41. 40: Four Seasons
  42. 41: Noontime Nap
  43. 42: Refreshing Rain
  44. 43: Summer Storm
  45. 44: Salutatorian Sylvia
  46. 45: Pump Priming
  47. 46: “Great” Grandmother
  48. 47: Devote Dad
  49. 48: Frosty Frost
  50. 49: Clover Concepts
  51. 50: Hill Homily
  52. Conclusion: Soil Sermons