Our first-born is an especially diligent young man. Even when he was just a lad you could count on him to attack a job and bring it to completion. One summer afternoon I asked him to vacuum out the van. He eagerly ran, got the vacuum and an extension chord and went to work. He did a great job, but that was not the end of the story.
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A Gentle Place to Fall
One year in apple-blossom and flowering Dogwood time I glanced out the window to see my neighbor Dave conducting a sacred rite of passage. He was teaching his little girl to ride her bike without training wheels. I got a lump in my throat at the sweetness of the memory of teaching my three older daughters to ride their bikes. I only have one left to teach, after that it will be my grand daughters by God’s good grace.
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Big Brother License
I preached in Higgins Lake at my little brother’s church yesterday morning. The evening service cancelled because of heavy snow and I spent all day driving back home. (The life of an itinerant preacher is not always all that romantic). Here is what I said when I got in my little brother’s pulpit for the first time:
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Daily Success
DAILY SUCCESS
My I suggest you take the time to consider what true success is and how to achieve it? I am praying that this stirs up a powerful men’s movement all over the world.
I have been to retreats and rallies to stir up the hearts of men and they have been wonderful, but this takes success to the next level. This is a plan for daily success based on the promises of the Bible for true success. Visit dailysuccess.org and take a look.
Barakel Bird
This little Chickadee was eating from the feeder in front of the East Side Chapel last weekend while I was speaking at Camp Barakel. Chuk braved the cold and snow to get this outstanding up-close photo.
On John Piper
I am convinced that John Piper is a gift to the church for our day. Often when I observe the apostasy and coldness of the church, the compromise and worldliness… my heart aches, but when I read men like John Piper and see that there are many who long for their faithful treatment of the Word, my heart is alive with hope again. Thank God for Piper. I say read him and read those he reads and let God do a deeper work in your soul. Someday I will meet him and I will thank him for the blessing he has been to me.
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