

Here, we will regularly feature NEW, timely notes from our outstanding CSM Contributing Bloggers. We invite you to read and share these via social media and with friends.
WORSHIP — PART TWO Dear Friend in Christ: I hope you are well this month and enjoying God’s favor. Here in the United States, we are celebrating, honoring, and praying for our school graduates. [...]
WORSHIP Dear Friend in Christ: Here in the Northern Hemisphere, “Spring has sprung,” as flowers and trees blossom in all of their glory, snowpacks melt and slake the thirst of rivers and lak [...]
RETURN Dear Friend in Christ: Years ago, I was traveling on mission in Mexico with a group of men from Covenant Church of Mobile. I was serving as Senior Pastor for Covenant Church, and we had bee [...]
{On this second anniversary of the passing of Charles Simpson, we share with you a special presentation of his August 2017 Pastoral Letter.} Publication: Pastoral Letter, August 2017 Angels [...]
FINDING YOUR PURPOSE Dear Friend in Christ: I cried a little bit the other night …tears of gratitude and joy. Our daughter, Victoria Grace, received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental [...]
GOD SO LOVED Dear Friend in Christ: By the power, wisdom, and vision of the Holy Spirit, the Old Testament prophets saw the coming Messiah hundreds of years before His birth. They saw and rebuke [...]
 November 2025 BROTHER BILLY  Dear Friend in Christ:  Here in the United States, November is the month we celebrate Thanksgiving. In this letter, I want to give [...]
October 2025 Â Â THE POWER OF YOUR TESTIMONY Â Dear Friend in Christ: Â When I was a little boy, I would visit my Grandpa and Grandma Dix at their medical office. Grandpa was a doctor; Gran [...]
September 2025 Dear Friend: A few weeks ago, the bad news just kept coming and coming. Devastating medical news. Financial drought. Multiplied relational issues and disputes that needed to be re [...]
Dear Friend in Christ: It gets cold in Volgograd, Russia, in December. That much isn’t a shock. In 1992, a year after Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev had dissolved the USSR, many large Rus [...]
THE HOPE OF YOUR CALLING-PART ONE Dear Friend in Christ:  I’ve been praying for you. These have been tumultuous times in the United States and around the world. Most of my dearest friends are [...]
Dear Friends of CSM: I hope all is well with you as we begin the Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. This is a special update on the work of the ministry as well as a personal update on Susanne [...]