I’m not ashamed to tell you I am a fan of the writer Jan Karon. I love to find someone who doesn’t know about Jan Karon, or Fernando Ortega, or the French Laundry or Anne of Green Gables, or other favorite things of mine. I introduce my friends to my favorites. I work with Bea […]
Sunday Morning
Here are some thoughtful ideas from Mark Dever about how to be on the ministry team on Sunday morning. This is a link to Tim Challies’ site. Church attendance is not a spectator sport where you rate the performance of the principle actors. It is corporate worship. It is the church gathered in the name […]
Two New Books and a New Story
It’s a crisp autumn morning in the Downriver. We had a good Lord’s Day yesterday. I poured my heart out to the people. If you are interested you can listen to the podcasts. If you don’t have time for the whole message, listen to the story I told to start my AM message. There is […]
Our Worthy Wonderful Creator
A few weeks before we began to explore coming to pastor Evangel, I spoke to a group of young people in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The conference center is set on a 3000 acre property surrounding a 300 acre lake in the beautiful Northwoods of the Western UP. The week was a gift from the Lord. […]
Learning from John McPhee and Sebastian Junger
Last night as evening fell, I found myself in the country enjoying a mellow and comely summer evening. I aimed my chair toward a far-away tree line in the west and read under a huge walnut tree while Lois took photos of our new grand-niece, Bailey Hope. Her big brothers, Riley and Wyatt (do these […]
One of My Favorite Sounds
In May of this year we invited Tom Harmon to speak to the men of our church on a Saturday morning. We started early and served the men coffee and a light breakfast by the fireside before the sessions began. I prayed for a good turn-out. When I stepped out of my study and turned […]
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