Thank you to all of you who kindly offered advice on dealing with winter. Spring is slowly coming; I feel it in the air. Days of warm, windy weather are mixing in with the cold spells, and certainly the green cannot stay away for long! Today is one of those warm, windy days. I'm sitting …
Tag: God’s call
Lord of harvest
Have you ever been in the middle of singing or listening to a song when you suddenly thought, "Wait! What in the world does this mean?" I remember that moment when sitting in church singing this song: "Lord of harvest, send forth reapers! Hear us, Lord, to Thee we cry; Send them now the sheaves …
Jesus Only
Matthew 17 tells the story of Jesus taking Peter, James, and John to a mountain, where they witnessed His transfiguration. The Bible says, "his face shone as the sun, and his clothes became white as light." For a moment, Moses and Elijah were also present. The disciples responded by falling on their faces and worshiping Jesus. I'm not …
The Call to Missions
I am about a third of the way through a book my sister gave me for my birthday. It's titled The Insanity of God, written by Nik Ripken. (The author writes under a pseudonym because of the nature of his work.) The Insanity of God is gripping, the kind of story that makes you laugh …