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.

OUT TO PASTOR: I was naughty and didn’t’ know it

For some reason, I got on Santa’s naughty list this year. You might ask, “How do you know that you’re on his naughty list?”The answer to that is very simple, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage said to me this past week, “I think you’re on Santa’s naughty list this year.

BLOOD COVENANT (part 3)

“Then the High Priest shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 22)

CHAPTER 22“The day my Grizzly came out.” There’s something else that stayed with me from Hemingway’s tale. It is the reason that this story came to my mind that Thursday evening, just before the Grizzly.

OUT TO PASTOR: My ongoing grudge with Santa

I’ve had sort of a grudge with old Mr. Santa Claus. I was introduced to Santa Claus by my parents, who informed me that he was the one that brought all of my Christmas presents on Christmas day. And I believed my parents.

BLOOD COVENANT (part 2)

“For the wages of sin is death (eternal death) but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – ROMANS 6:23We have all been born in sin inherited from Adam, a generational curse of sickness, disease, poverty and eternal death has come down the bloodline to us all.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 21)

CHAPTER 21“Destroyed, but not defeated” I stopped to rest on some logs on the right side of the trail somewhere between five and six p.m. that Thursday evening.