A week later George made another appointment to visit with Pastor Jones. “Hi George, Pastor Jones began. “Before we begin today, let’s pray. Father, thank you for George and for what you’re doing in his life. Please glorify yourself as we talk and bless George with new things to live for and to do for […]
The Gospel Part — Coming to Christ
Pastor Jones was sitting in his office, one Monday morning, trying to get over the previous weekend. Two services in the morning and one in the evening, with guests for lunch really takes it out of a guy. At about half past ten, Pastor Jones’ secretary buzzed him with a message that George wanted to […]
Apply to Christ
“I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven’s height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise them; and make deaths, […]
They Still Stagger Forward
“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them all to be vanity and emptiness, they will become very perplexed and disappointed. But they will continue their fruitless search. Though wearied, they still stagger forward under the influence of spiritual […]
What I Think About Abortion, and Why
A short caveat: I believe what I am telling you is true. It is what I think. But I know that as I have chatted with folks over the years that they can fool themselves into thinking they think certain things, but they are wrong. I often help others rethink their position, based on the […]
The Doors
By Lisa Leidenfrost Worry, it seems like just a natural part of us that can’t be helped, or can it? Why do we worry and what is going on? Why don’t we just trust the Lord automatically when the possibility of something hard looms on the horizon? I think it would help to know what […]
Taking the Easy Way
Bob had a fight with his wife and was angry. He decided to go for a walk to cool off. While on his walk he wandered past the local bar. Outside the bar was a woman who, as he got closer, he realized was his old high school girlfriend, Mabel. She looked as good as […]
When Things Go Crazy
by Lisa Leidenfrost With things in the world the way they are right now, with extremists muslims taking over territory and with the homosexuals gaining their victory at the expense of everyone else, things seem like they are turning upside down. It is the same feeling as being in an earthquake where the ground underneath […]
When I Die
“May I live the remainder of my life as entirely to the glory of God as he lived; and when I shall come to the period of my life, may I die in the same blessed peace wherein he died: may I be with him in the kingdom of light and love for ever” Ian […]