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 […]
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5 Lessons From My Logbook
I have recorded every commercial airline flight I’ve ever taken … beginning in June of 1952. On that day I traveled with my parents to Miami from Havana, Cuba where my Dad had been doing ministry. Up through my latest flight I have flown over 1,116,000 miles strapped into airline seats (which have […]
Ditching the Hindrances
“Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that […]
The Real You
“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love;’” Jeremiah 31:3 NIV Who are you, really? There’s the obvious, physical you … the one to whom the door opens when you are viewed through the peephole. This ‘you’ is recognized by face, body style and voice. […]