Google Glitch January 31, 2009
This morning I woke early without an alarm and set out to clean my coffee-maker. I “googled” up the instructions, got my white vinegar and water mix going through the machine, and set out to search for information on how to clean my French Press. Suddenly Google stopped working. At first I thought it was me, but later discovered that it was Google’s glitch. The site was down for about an hour costing Google an estimated 2-3 million dollars in lost advertising revenue. My coffee appliances are all clean and Google’s back raking in the big bucks again.
A Message to Our President January 27, 2009
May God raise up more clear, courageous, prophetic voices like this all over our land.
Prayer for the President January 22, 2009
Al Mohler has a suggested prayer for our new president.
Kingdom Adventures January 16, 2009
In the early sixties my Dad and Mom were with a missionary organization called the Galilean Baptist Mission. It was a “home mission” organization. In other words, it was an organization that worked in North America, specifically in Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, I believe. The organization started churches and helped small, rural churches thrive. Dad was a seminary student – eager to preach and the serve the Lord. He and mom have maintained this passion unabated for nearly fifty years of ministry.
Back to my story. (more…)
Getting up Slowly January 12, 2009
Something happened yesterday deep in my heart. People were all around me when it happened, but no one could have known it. Lately I have invested a lot of time in our youngest son, Wesley. He is thirteen and has had the opportunity to play football for the first time. He starts as quarterback for the varsity team in our Downriver Community football league. When we committed to playing football, we set limits. He would not play on Wednesday nights or on Sundays. Those days are reserved for the Lord and for involvement in our church, but we have invested many hours in Wes this fall watching practice and arranging our schedule and meetings so he knows he has our love and support. (more…)
Tim Tebow Family January 10, 2009
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A Promised Steak January 9, 2009
To portage and to paddle thorough the Canadian wilderness is incredibly beautiful and rigorous. If you haven’t tried it you really should, just because there are some beautiful places that you have to paddle for many miles to reach. Having paddled and carried your canoe and food and tent and gear to those places somehow makes them even more beautiful and more enjoyable. O how sweet is the sleep I have enjoyed on a bed of pine needles, on a rocky point, in a pristine Canadian lake, under a waxing moon, after a day of strenuous effort as the loons call to each other in the night. You go to sleep with a smell of wood smoke perfuming the chill night air. (more…)
Pegs on the Wall
They say that tucked away in a little mountain pass in Colorado is a very beautiful but humble chapel. It’s a lovely little church in a breath-taking setting – a gathering place – a place of worship for the people that live there. But it has no lights. It has only pegs along the wall. The worshipers must bring their own lanterns and hang them on the pegs. If they don’t bring their own light or if there are only a few of them it will be dark and gloomy within.
Our church is the same. When we gather and each of us bring with us beaming from within, the light of God, O what a light it is. It is a collective spiritual brilliance. It outshines things like hurt, guilt, need, recession, disappointment, loss, fear, and pain. It is a light only present where believers gather and lend warmth and light to one another.
I see it in the faces of the choir. I hear it in the voices raised in song. I watch it in the quiet bowing of the reverent head to pray. It’s there by the fireplace where busy mothers encourage one another. It’s there in a manly embrace. It’s dropped into the offering plate as unto the Lord.
O God help us see how dark will be if we do not light one another, how cold it will be if we do not warm one another. Let us not neglect the assembly especially when things are cold and dark. — In Christ’s Name, Amen
