I paced the first base coach’s box and watched my little boy warming up on deck. Every cell of his body reflected eager nervousness. When his turn came he stepped into the batter’s box and went through the motions he had seen others perform. It was his first year of baseball. Every game he put […]
Little Flocks in the Wilderness
“It is a great advantage to a minister to commence his public life in a small village, where he can have time a quiet for study and reading: that man is wise who avails himself of that opportunity.” -C. H. Spurgeon All-Around Ministry In the harvest field now ripened There’s a work for all to […]
Please Help
Would anyone out there be willing to send the poor missionary family money in large amounts so we can afford to buy some new socks for our children? We are just bare-ly clinging to life here. Just kidding folks. We have never done better. God is so good to us. We all have plenty of […]
Bad Tradition
I started a little tradition a few years ago. We were in a department store. Lois and the girls were looking at makeup and stuff. We were trying to avoid the young women in the white coats intent on spraying us with things when an idea came to my mind that I should have resisted. […]
Snowy Weekend
We just returned from a weekend retreat at Camp Barakel. As always the food and fellowship at Barakel were good. I preached four times at Barakel, a total of about nine times this week. This morning we welcome a nice group of young people to the Stonebridge Newsletter from the retreat this weekend. It was […]
Oak Brook
This weekend Lois and I have had all or part of five days together. That is something I am not sure we have done in twenty-five years. We enjoyed our annual Directors Meeting and Valentine Banquet at IBLP Headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. It was a treat, complete with valet parking, live classical music, a […]