For some time, I have been encouraged by friends to create a podcast of the messages I have been writing and sharing since 2007, which now total 1076 messages published on my website, with an additional 60 drafts I have not yet finished. Giving a verbal presentation of a message is a little different, and I personally prefer speaking rather than writing. But I have found that writing can often capture the message I wish to convey more clearly, but it also lacks a certain personal touch, such as emotion.

Nevertheless, beginning this year, I will be sharing messages on Spotify. They will be based on messages from my website, and they will generally follow the written message, but not exactly. They won’t be long, three to five minutes.

I am a big believer that if you don’t share your life history, someone else might someday, and that may or may not be something you will approve of. I recall talking to my Dad not many years before he passed, and he read a story in an educational book that he was intimately acquainted with. The written story was very different than the way he remembered it. It put him and some associates, although they weren’t named, in a bad light. After reading it to me out loud, he closed the book and said, “That’s history for you!” It was his way of teaching me that everything you read in books isn’t always true.

I think all of us, particularly if we are getting up in age, should write down life stories that have impacted our lives. In so doing, we set the record straight, but more importantly, we pass on to our posterity important lessons we have learned. After all, the scriptures are merely the writing of inspired people who want the world to know of their strong belief in Jesus Christ and His redemptive mission.