Last August God began to work in my heart, bringing me to deep conviction about devoting myself to prayer in the same way I have devoted myself to the ministry of the Word for the last 36 years. Using the Word, the the inner voice of the Spirit, and divinely-arranged circumstances, He moved me to […]
Lessons on the Porch (Part Three)
Sunday night August 10 God spoke to my heart in a very clear way out on the porch after a long Lord’s Day of ministry. He challenged me to devote myself to prayer in the same way I have devoted myself to the ministry of the Word. The next morning God arranged an experience for […]
Lessons on the Porch (Part Two)
Monday is my day off. Now that most of the children are grown I almost always work most of the day, but I rarely go into the study at church. Some Mondays I will have a funeral or a hospital call or an emergency. On Monday morning, August 10th I had a hospital call early […]
Lessons on the Porch (Part One)
It was mid-August 2015. It was the Lord’s Day. It had been a long day. Sundays are always long days. Good, long days. After a full Lord’s Day of ministry I call my parents on the way home and we catch up and talk about the things of the Lord and our churches. I remember […]
The Beginning of Year Nine
On November 10, 2007 this is what I wrote on my blog: “Autumn is mercifully lingering into November in the Midwest this year. I don’t mind at all. The season is like a favorite guest that you try to talk into staying just a little longer. We drove across the bottom of the “mitten” yesterday […]
No Show
(Classic re-post from 2001) This weekend I spoke to a father-son retreat at a small camp. There were only a couple dozen guys there but there was a sweet spirit among them and good fellowship. A fifteen year old boy stood and lead singing with a guitar and the men sang with obvious zeal and […]