I’ll blog more later. Just to give you an update, tonight I finished a seminar on parenting. The folks at St. Clairsville couldn’t have been nicer. They’ve known me for years. When I came back to America I worked in Lancaster, Ohio for just under nine years and then went to Morgantown, West Virginia for [...]
Something was wrong with Isaac. Look at his father and you see a giant of the faith. Abraham had his faults — serious ones — but his faith is what we remember. Look at Isaac’s son and you see a rascal, but we remember Jacob for working an extra seven years for Rachel, for being [...]
I was only able to watch “The Passion of the Christ” once, but the scene that stood out in my memory was a quick one, easy to miss. Inside a small room the table is set for Passover. Mary, the mother of Jesus, the younger Mary, and John are there when they hear the shouts [...]
We had a great night last night. We didn’t get a hard count but we believe 780-800 were in our building for the showing of the “Rough Cut” video. Our people have already been captivated by this effort on behalf of the children of Uganda (see www.invisiblechildren.com) as Josh and I did a short introduction [...]
A few comments made on posts recently bring up a question that might need answered. People have wondered if our longing for heaven — specificaly my “I’m just a passin’ through” attitude — would lead us to forgo charity and good works down here. The theory goes like this: if we are waiting for heaven [...]
[Warning: this is a long post. It is a condensed version of a lesson given at Rochester during Connections, our weekly Wednesday seeker service] The Israelites came up against the Jordan River for the second time. They were fully aware that their forefathers failed this test almost forty years previously, dooming them to death in [...]
My last post brought a lot of comments via private email and a few who posted. My thanks to all. Yet, there needs to be some clarification of exactly what I meant when I talked about the creation of programs that enslave. Some thought I was referencing welfare, etc. but my brush was painting a [...]
There’s a lovely old hymn that declares “this world is not my home; I’m just a’passing through.” I love that song. I’m thinking of it while I wait in the Fort Lauderdale airport for an evening flight back to Detroit and my family. In the last two months I have gone back and forth from [...]