FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 26)

CHAPTER 26“The last river.” (Part 1) About the time I was ‘sweet-talking’ our Grizzly, Todd found the campsite where the two cowboys were camping. Even though it was a camp for horse riders, they kindly agreed to share it with us, knowing, of course, that we had been in a bad way for several days.

OUT TO PASTOR: I just kissed yesterday goodbye

Focus is an essential part of getting something done. Sometimes my focus is more on yesterday than it is today. I waste a lot of time looking backward.The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage often rebukes me because I look in the past. I talk more about yesterday than I do today.

BLOOD COVENANT (part 6)

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: LOST IN YELLOWSTONE (CHAPTER 25)

CHAPTER 25“Lost letters, a horse named Roxy, and The Virginian.” We had traveled a long way, and the end was almost in sight.This Thursday had been the most eventful day of all, and we had put many miles behind us amidst it all.

OUT TO PASTOR: Splish splash, I forgot to take a bath

If you had the opportunity to speak to the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage, she would probably tell you that one of my strengths is forgetting.There is nothing I cannot forget. Also, I can forget things that never happened. So please don’t ask me how because I have forgotten.

BLOOD COVENANT (PART 5)

“For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another, He then would have...

LOST IN YELLOWSTONE (chapter 24)

CHAPTER 24“What do you sing to a Grizzly?” The Grizzly stared at me for a long time, and then was satisfied.The narrow, wooded trail between my blonde friend and me was now empty.

OUT TO PASTOR: The nightmare after Christmas

Technically, Christmas is over... all over our living room floor, that is. Piles of wrapping paper in this corner and empty boxes in that corner, and colorful ribbons from here to there, all evidence that Christmas must have been a success this year.

BLOOD COVENANT (part 4)

“But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 23)

CHAPTER 23“Eye to eye with my Grizzly.” There will be a moment or two in life you never get over.We visited there when the Grizzly came out of nowhere and shared our path around six p.m. on that Thursday, July 15.I think the bear shared more than a physical path that day.