Homestead Homilies

Relive through reminiscing and remembering a Maine pastors recollections of boyhood experiences that turned into a ministers messages in old age. After five decades (Barrys 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 grandparents 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 didnt 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 grandmothers helpful hand a bee hive a simple prayer a sparrows song and many more simple events in a past age where homilies were being preached and now eventually heard. It is the authors prayer that these simple sermons will provoke the reader to remember long lost messages from their distant past.