[photo taken by Chuk Pierpont at Duck Point on Wolf Lake near Watersmeet, Michigan] Does the “call of the eternal” ring clearly in your soul? J. H. Jowett’s book The Preacher, His Life and Work is the text of his 1912 Yale Lectures on Preaching. They are over 100 years old but I have read […]
A Unique Way to Impress Beautiful Women
A classic re-post from 2004 I noticed one day… I suppose my children pointed it out to me a special quality that gummy bears have. If you lick them and throw them they will stick to almost anything. If you lick them and throw them you can stick them to the ceiling. You can throw […]
Thank You, Jim Parmalee
Thanks to Jim Evans for snapping this recent photo of the original FBC Wayland building. I helped build this building with my own hands–when I was six. ————- Lois and Hope and I are in Oregon visiting Jesse and Holly this week on a vacation. We have seen many of the local sites, Cannon Beech, […]
The Smell of Spring in Your Soul
I was about thirteen when I started saving money from my paper route for a new bike. I rose at five in the morning six days a week from about 11 to 17 years old to deliver the Dayton Journal Herald. I’ve been an early-riser since. Dad saw that I was a high-energy kid and […]
A Smile Will Brush My Heart
I listened to John Ortberg this morning while I was walking Hazard around the pond. Ortberg has a great sense of humor. During his Easter message he said; “2000 years after Rome crucified Jesus, Christian, which is a name that means “Little Christs” number in the billions while “Little Caesars” the name of a Pizza franchise.” […]
Fewer Meetings-More Ministry
I have a profound stirring in my heart to have fewer meetings at church and more ministry away from church. I’m not against the big assembly—I just think that weekly assembly is going to be much more dynamic if it is filled with new believers who were mined like diamonds out of the community around […]