Articles Archive for October 2008
Current Thoughts »
It was cold last night – good sleeping weather we like to say – if you have a cozy bed piled with quilts. Last night I got in bed with a warm feeling of security. I slept between flannel sheets. Before I went to bed I prayed to Jesus, the King of angels, that He would watch over our home and our dreams. The house was quiet. I tumbled some scripture over in my mind while I went to sleep. I slept deeply.
Savanna did not. She was drinking with her …
Virtues and Values »
Sometimes people are out to get you, but probably not as often as you think. The sad fact is most people really do spend most of their time thinking only of themselves. They are not guilty of malice toward you as often as they are guilty of indifference. In my thirty years of ministry I have noticed that part of the Devil’s craft is inspiring people to do just the wrong thing at just the right time to confirm the worst suspicions of the best people. Not everyone is out …
Current Thoughts, Fireside Academy »
I have a little snapshot in the album of my memory of a carefree fall Saturday morning. I’m about ten years old. I’m in Levi’s and a stripped tee-shirt with a red wool ball cap. I’m sitting on the front steps warmed with sunlight. The sky is bright blue and clear. Overhead maples flame with color and wave their branches out over the road. I’m eating a Jonathan apple. Dad is working on the old black Studebaker that he bought from an elderly man in Bellefontaine for fifty dollars. The …
