How long do you expect the house you live in to stand? I walked by a twenty-year-old Cape Cod this morning, already looking shabby. Our hundred year old bungalow, with lots of loving attention, looks better. A key difference is the materials. The Cape Cod is sided in vinyl, our cottage is painted redwood, the …
Category Archives: Spiritual Formation
Seminal Sermons
"The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, 'Take off the grave clothes and let him go.'" John 11:44 Either Gayle Erwin or Dick Foth spoke on this text thirty years ago at Urbana Assembly of God. I still …
Through Whose Eyes?
"…call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me. I went away full but the Lord has brought me home empty." (NLT) In the first chapter of Ruth, Naomi speaks to her friends upon her return to Bethlehem from Moab, where her husband and two sons have died. Ruth, her Moabite …