by Marilou Lyons | Aug 29, 2022 | 2022, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford In the fall of 1958, Walt was asked to come to Podunk Center, Iowa, to preach in a evangelistic campagin for two weeks. (Yes, there really was a Podunk Center in those ancient days!) The four of us, Walt and I, with...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 22, 2022 | 2022, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Frankly, I didn’t think the woman looked like a good role-model for the women in our church, even if she was the evangelist’s wife. This was years ago. Walt had invited her husband to preach a series of messages in...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 15, 2022 | 2022, Devotionals
A Sort of Parable by Elizabeth Rice Handford Once upon a time, long ago and far away, lived a handsome prince with his beautiful wife and his three tall sons. They were all children of the High King of Heaven and Earth, and they all loved Him very much. But one...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 8, 2022 | 2022, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Shortly after my husband Walt retired as pastor of Southside Baptist, he fell from the roof of our home. Distraught, I followed the ambulance to the hospital, not knowing how seriously he was injured. It turned out...
by Marilou Lyons | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford. Why is it that so often these days I find myself holding a different opinion than what a TV drama is portraying? Or what a panel of experts is advocating? Or what a popular actor is promoting? I gladly affirm their...
by Marilou Lyons | Jul 25, 2022 | 2022, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford So here I am, dressed in my “Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes,” teaching my Sunday school class of young wives. I’m the pastor’s wife, mind you, mother of seven small children, expected to be a paragon of virtue...
