“It’s your breath in our lungs and we pour out our praise to You Lord” “Great Are You Lord” Jason Ingram*/David Leonard/Leslie Jordan 11/8/2016 Picture God standing before pre-earth’s infinite empty darkness. His Spirit is brooding (hovering), not over its chaos and total lack of order, but contemplating what is to come. And God’s […]
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A Promise and a Name
When I eulogized my good friend Bill Lichty several weeks ago, I didn’t tell a very important part of his personal story. Let me give it to you now. Bill was the son of missionaries to East Africa. He was residing safely in his mother’s womb when World War II necessitated his family leaving the […]
Re-routed By God
Many years ago, my father-in-law was on a road trip from New Mexico back to his home in Illinois. It was the dawning of our country’s interstate system which would one day criss-cross our nation from top to bottom and from sea to shining sea. But he wasn’t on an interstate highway. He was […]
Hallmark Movies
Why can’t I trust God like I trust Hallmark movies? It’s only been a few years that I have been watching Hallmark movies with my wife. (And if this brings my manhood into question, you’ve just not met men in touch with their emotions!) But I have learned to trust how a Hallmark movie will […]
Terrified!
It was a terrifying situation. Traffic was heavy enough that the car in front of me was mere feet away, and the car following me was less than a car length from my back bumper. Machinery hemmed me in on both sides of the narrow lane. And worse, I could scarcely see through the […]