After Skipper and Yoder we looked for a purebred Golden Retriever. We found a breeder up near Butler, Ohio and talked him into selling us the runt of the litter. We brought her home and she never wore a lead. She never spent an hour in the dog run. She was never put on a chain. Her name was Ginger. At the time we lived on a farm in a valley on a dead-end road and Ginger had the run of the farm. She loved it and we all loved her.
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This Week (September 9-15, 2003)
As I write this we are on our way home from South Haven where we preached and sang at Bethel Baptist Church. Chuck is driving so I can write and work on some messages for tomorrow. We will return for the next two Sundays to South Haven. I am looking forward to being on the west coast of Michigan for the arrival of autumn. The trees are just starting to color in a few places. Saturday night we stood on a wooden deck drinking coffee and watching sailboats come into harbor at dusk.
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Grandpa’s Sacrifice
There is something about love that makes sacrifice sweet. My dad understood this. He didn’t talk about it he just did it. He may have learned that from his father. My grandfather worked all his life to buy a farm. He would love to have been able to raise his children on a farm but he was never able to do that. A few years after his last child married and started a family of his own he and grandma purchased a simple farm in the rolling Ohio farmland that he loved. As far as I know they never named it. I would have. For years we have all just referred to it as “the farm.”
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How I Know the Bible Is True
I’ve read some powerful arguments for the accuracy of the Bible. I have always been taught and I have come to believe as a deep conviction that the Bible is the word of God. Hundreds of the prophecies of the Bible have already been fulfilled in exact detail. Over and over again it has been proven to be scientifically and historically accurate. But in my own heart and in my own experience the most powerful argument for the accuracy and the truth of the Bible comes from my own experience. I believe the Bible is true because I have tested it and proven it true in my own life. Let me give you an example.
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Dangers of Coffee-Drinking
I like coffee. For Father’s Day last year my first-born son bought me one of these new Keurig brewers coffee makers… and my second-oldest son bought me a full pound of Starbuck’s breakfast blend coffee beans. Oh, my…
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The Great White Shark
The early winter of 1994 was harsh. Our life had been disrupted that year by a difficult move and trying circumstances. Our family of nine was between homes, living in a small two-bedroom apartment waiting for our country house to become available. (We are still waiting for that). Wes was a newborn that winter. Most of our belongings were stored in a leaky garage twenty miles east of town. Our second car was stranded five miles west of town in our church parking lot. It was a difficult confusing time.
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