In this day and age with all of our wars, pain, refugees, and on and on, it’s always nice to have some Good News. But, there can’t be any Good News without the bad news.
The bad news really isn’t news, it’s normal life. We see evil and the evidence of evil all around us, we watch it on the nightly news, we listen to it conveyed in our songs, and Continue reading The Gospel (Good News)
We’ve all had them, an idea that flashes through your head that shakes your body to the core.
I had one of those Christmas week 2012. The idea came from a poem written by Jerry Allen, a Multnomah University classmate, describing what it would like if Christ had been born in Papua New Guinea. Continue reading What if Christ was born in New Guinea?
I’m studying The Abundant Life (John 10.10 NKJV). While wrapping my head around that concept, I was reminded that we are the Bride of Christ (I don’t know the exact connection either – but there it was). Continue reading Marriage is Like …
I learned a new truth recently. Learning new significant truth is always thrilling.
I was listening to a tape
Lilly (that was not her real name) had worked for us long enough to work her way up to be the office manager of our business. She was tall and slender, with long blond hair, a round face punctuated with big baby blue eyes, and a smile that would melt an anvil. She had a confident telephone voice and she handled walk in customers very comfortably.
She was efficient, getting
Sarah of the Old Testament is one of my all time greats! She was Abraham’s wife and life-time companion and she is the only woman in the New Testament mentioned as an example of how to be a good wife.
Job, of the Old Testament, is one of my all-time favorite people. The Living Bible introduces him as a family man, seven sons and three daughters, and a business man; the richest cattle man in his entire area. He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, Continue reading Finest Man in all the Earth
We recently purchased a machine for our business, it was a used machine and it did not work.
Inside the machine were some electronic circuit boards that had been “repaired” by a self-styled technician. It looked like Continue reading Getting It Fixed
We had the privilege of having our two grandsons (two and four) with us for a wonderful week. Their parents drove them from Los Angeles to Tucson, spent the night and they left for a week-long conference.
The next morning the oldest grandson asked, “How long is a week?” Continue reading Logic, with a Four Year Old
From whom do we learn about the really important things of life?
Naaman, a successful Old Testament army officer, is one of my favorite instructors about learning from other people. Naaman came up through the ranks to earn Continue reading From Whom Do We Learn