Dr. Kevin Bauder has been speaking at the GARBC Annual Conference this week. Each evening he has opened his message with comments about GARBC history. Very worthwhile: GARBC History Number One: https://garbcconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Bauder-History-1.mp3 GARBC History Number Two: https://garbcconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/06_23_09-Bauder-History.mp3 GARBC History Number Three: https://garbcconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/06_24_09_History.mp3 As usual my brother Kevin has a well-organized page of links for the […]
John Piper on TV and Movies
Now that the video of the Q&A at Advance 09 is available, I can look at it and feel bad all over again. Here’s what I regret, indeed what I have apologized for to the person who asked the question. The first question to me and Mark Driscoll was, “Piper says get rid of my […]
GARBC Annual Conference
This week I am attending the GARBC Annual Conference. For those of you who are uninitiated in this acronym that is General Association of Regular Baptist Churches. It was my privilege to do a seminar on storytelling. It was standing-room only and a lot of fun. Renald Showers, Kevin Bauder, and John Greening are the […]
More ‘Torries Gampa
I have waited for years for what happened last night. Kyle Kenneth, our first grandson, came to visit the Granville Cottage. He brought his parents and his little brother, Oliver. He is two years old now. For the first time last night I told him a story and he listened intently to every word. I […]
Where’s My Sunday Paper?
How often do we jump to conclusions and blame others before really examining the situation? The irate customer called the newspaper office loudly demanding to know where her Sunday edition was. “Ma’am,’ said the newspaper employee, ‘today is Saturday … The Sunday paper is not delivered until tomorrow, on Sunday.” There was quite a long […]
Proverbs
Solomon wrote proverbs. Psalm 78 says stories and proverbs are a father’s tools for parenting. Now that I’m fifty, more and more I have an ear for wise sayings. I’m reaching toward the “sage stage” of my life so I am collecting wise sayings. Here is a small sample: “Before you criticize a person be […]


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