When I lead a Journey to the Heart it is an experience in intense discipleship in a group of twelve, the way Jesus did it. I do as much of the teaching as I can outdoors. Between lessons sometimes I enjoy of luxury of a snooze in the sunshine. When this picture was taken I […]
Men of Valor
It’s Memorial Day today. My Grandfather was a WWII veteran and on Memorial Day we would often visit the farm and take in a remembrance service, and visit our family’s gravesite. I won’t be able to do that today. All my grandparents are with the Lord and now I am a grandpa. Each of my […]
Mosquitoes
As beautiful as our world is, it is fallen and sin-cursed. There is enough beauty here to stir our hearts with longing for God and enough of the curse to remind us that this world as it is is not our final destination. I am headed for the Northwoods again. It is beautiful there. Tannin-stained […]
Grandson!
Can you imagine our rejoicing today? This is our first grandson… our first grandchild. He was born in Mishawaka, Indiana on the 16th of May, 2007. He was 7 pounds and 14 ounces and twenty-two inches in length. He has a set of preacher’s lungs on his designed for heralding the gospel. We drove over […]
Just Outside the Window
If I ever wrote myself into a story I would have to live in a house with a lilac bush outside our bedroom window so the evening breeze would carry the scent of lilac into the room as I say goodnight to the Lord and drift into sleep. It is springtime now and I am […]