FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: 25 years headed to ‘Australia’

Welcome back this week to the ‘front porch.’ Well, friends, we’ve finally come to the end of our Yellowstone journey; and I owe you my thanks for traveling along every step, all the way until we walked out of that wilderness unscathed.

OUT TO PASTOR: One mouth, too many words

I read somewhere where the average woman speaks 20,000 words a day, and the average man speaks 7,000 words a day. I’m not sure if that’s true because I never believe everything I read, particularly on my computer, unless I write it.

BLOOD COVENANT (part 12)

But to which of the angels has He ever said: “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 32)

CHAPTER 32“Crossing a different river.” We slept well that night, Todd and I sleeping in Ethan’s bed and Ethan taking the couch in the living room. The next morning we left early, wanting to visit some hot springs that we would pass on the way.

OUT TO PASTOR: What a crazy world we live in

Driving home from an appointment across town, my wife and I encountered some crazy driver weaving in and out on the road in front of us. The fact that there was not an accident was somewhat surprising.“What,” The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage exclaimed, “is wrong with people?

Blood Covenant (part 11)

And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull, they gave Him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 31)

CHAPTER 31“The last mile” Home free – almost.Todd and I had made it as far as we did, with the help of tremendous Providence. I am confident we could have made it the last few miles had we not met our ‘guardian ranger’ Ethan, since we had come that far.

OUT TO PASTOR: What’s so cool about a cucumber?

When it comes to vegetables, I am no connoisseur at all. The only vegetable I really like is carrot cake. According to The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage, that is not a vegetable.We often discuss vegetables, and she has brought to me a lot of proof that carrot cake is not a vegetable.

BLOOD COVENANT (part 10)

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 30)

CHAPTER 30“Eight more miles to Louisville” I noticed something about Ethan as the three of us made our way up the mountain. While Todd went on ahead at times, Ethan never got more than twenty or thirty feet ahead of me.