OUT TO PASTOR: Green thumb versus black and blue thumb

If you came to our parsonage, you would discover all over our property, plants and flowers. Just don’t ask me to identify what they are. I can tell a plant from a flower, but that’s as far as it goes with me.That is not true with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage.

ON THE JOB TRAINING (part 28)

When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (Chapter 12)

CHAPTER 12“The Guardian Angel” Wednesday afternoon was a turning point, the most important of our journey.

OUT TO PASTOR: What would life be – without mistakes?

Let me be clear from the beginning. I’ve made a lot of mistakes during my life. I have made mistakes that I don’t even know about to this day. Even the ones I do know about, I cannot remember very clearly.Mistakes are a part of life.

ON THE JOB TRAINING (part 27)

“But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (Chapter 11)

CHAPTER 11“What the note did not say” No one could say with certainty what it was that Todd saw. One might say it was just a hiker on the trail. Another? It had to be an angel. What I do know is that Todd himself did not know.He had hiked up the river all morning, leaving me well behind him.

OUT TO PASTOR: I don’t believe in karma

Some people believe in karma, but I don’t.I do believe that everything you do does have consequences. Sometimes those consequences are small and insignificant – and sometimes rather large and unbearing.Recently, my truck was in the garage for about six weeks getting a new engine.

ON THE JOB TRAINING (part 26)

“Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (Chapter 10)

CHAPTER 10“The dividing of a river, the parting of friends.” There it stood!Perhaps it was just the Lord’s reminder for us to absorb all the good things around us, not just the ominous.

OUT TO PASTOR: The epitome of boredom

I have never considered myself to be boring. I may be boring to other people but not to myself.As you get older, you find out that there are many boring things in this world.When younger, I can’t ever remember being bored except when my father was lecturing me on how I should behave.