We Need Others by Steve Martin

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We Need Others

Men (and women) need friendships. For far too long we have been made to think that we can do all on our own. To be the one who can fix anything with no help from others.

I used to think that.

My wife and I needed more space for our growing family with four kids. We decided to add more footage to our East Lansing, Michigan home around 1983. My brother-in-law Bob Smith, a contractor, had a construction crew who did the work.

Before Laurie’s parents were coming from Illinois for a visit, I was saving pallets from my work and then nailing them down as a new floor in the attic, to make more storage space.

My foot missed the flooring joist. It went through the ceiling in the new addition family room below.

I could not fix that. And the Lord clearly spoke to me, “You cannot do all things by yourself. You need others.”

“And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 1 Corinthians 12.21, NASB

I got the help I needed to repair that new ceiling. I am thankful for those who have skills that we do not process.

We need others. We cannot walk alone.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin

We honor and celebrate Memorial Day.

 

Thank You, Lord, for Bibi.

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Thank You, Lord, for Bibi - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gathering Together

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Gathering together for special events reminds me of several in the past where we enjoyed getting together in large numbers - ministry conferences, graduations, weddings, family reunions, and beyond. 

Even NASCAR races, as with the one I have often gone to in Charlotte, North Carolina - the Coca-Cola 600 every Memorial Day weekend. This year will be no exception. Five guys!

Our good friend for over 39 years, Indira Persad, having first met in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1987, along with her husband Edgar, graduates this May 23, 2026 with a doctorate from CMM. The ceremony is in Wilkesboro, NC. Laurie and I made the two hour trek by car to celebrate with her and the ministry/college founders Jorge and AnnamarieParrott, along with many others.

Prior to the event, as I sat in the hotel room waiting for the sun to get up too, I happened to listen to a YouTube message on house churches. We have had a small home group for many years, and I look forward to once again resuming our precious times together, once I return back from a month-long ministry trip to Texas in June with Christian Friends of Israel and the Jerusalem team.

The early church met in house churches. We need to rethink our gatherings in these days, and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.

“Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread [as]from house to house, they were taking their [at]meals together with gladness and [au]sincerity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding [av]to their number day by day those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:46-47, NASB)

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin

P.S. Check out the video I watched: 

“Where You Are” - sung by Leland

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Where You Are by Leland

Come Lord Jesus!

Walk On. Complete your destiny and leave a legacy.

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Complete your destiny and leave a legacy. Steve Martin in Charlotte, NC

Press On by Steve Martin

Press On

​Looking at that covered wagon, a prairie schooner, in the small Waxhaw, North Carolina museum got me to thinking about what character those people had to have. As I leaned over the side, on my toes to see high enough, I became in awe of their grit, courage, and fortitude.

They had little in regards to physical means. And yet they pressed on with their imbedded character.

Entire families, moving with what they owned and could fit in that space, set out for a more hopeful future.

According to Gemini, “a classic Western covered wagon, known as a Prairie Schooner, featured a wooden box that was about 4 feet wide and 9 to 11 feet long. With the canvas cover attached, the wagon stood about 10 feet tall and spanned 23 feet in total length including the animal yoke and tongue.”

Not much. But they did what they had to do, with what they had.

We got it made with our cushioned seats, power steering, more horse power than we need A/C vehicles, which can drive hundreds of miles in a single day.

We need more of their “press on” attitude in our comfortable lives. To be able to see ahead, commit to getting it done, and believing the good Lord will bless the work of our hands is needed more today than even then.

“Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13, NASB

I hope you are too. Press on!

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin