Al Mohler has a suggested prayer for our new president.
Kingdom Adventures
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. [Read more…] about Kingdom Adventures
Getting up Slowly
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. [Read more…] about Getting up Slowly
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
Little Things are Big Things to Little People
When I was about five years old my dad had a week or two of training in New York City to be a military chaplain. While we were there our family lived in a very modest apartment. It was a different world from the Michigan farmhouse that was the parsonage of First Baptist Church in Wayland. [Read more…] about Little Things are Big Things to Little People
My Favorite Kyles
The family was in for Christmas
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