Mephibosheth
My favorite story in the Bible, next to, of course, the gospel of Jesus, is the story of Mirab Baal. The story is found in 2 Samuel. Mirab Baal was the son of Jonathan, and grandson of Saul, the first king of Israel and Judah. When he was a small boy, Mirab Baal lived a […]
The White Stone
Back in the summer of 1975, I was on a college mission trip to East Brunswick, New Jersey where we held vacation bible schools for the local children. There were 8 college students on our team and we spent the entire summer living in the preacher’s home, where the garage doubled as the church. Close […]
Y’all Come Go With Us
I’m a child of the 60’s. I don’t mean I was old enough to be a hippy. But, literally, a child of the 60’s. As a child of the 60’s, I remember how great the toys were back then. And how imagination was a huge predictor of how long those toys would last. I loved […]
Shirley Temple and Yertle The Turtle
I have read all my life about the attributes of God. We could sit here for hours and pour out a list of countless virtues and features of His character, and each one mentioned would be colored slightly differently and have contrasting significance for each one of us, based on our own personal experiences with […]
Diphylleia Grayi
(When I first saw the name of this flower out of corner of my eye, I thought it said dysfunctional gravy. But, I digress.) The diphylleia grayi is a beautiful, delicate white flower that grows in the colder, moist, wooded mountain regions of Japan and China. It can grow up to about 1 1/2 feet high […]
Obvious Places
One of the lessons, maybe the most important lesson, I’ve learned from being a part of Celebrate Recovery for 16 years is the discipline of listening. I think it’s a habit of our culture to have a pithy phrase at the tip of our tongue for every situation and every difficult occasion. And it’s basically […]