FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (chapter 14)

CHAPTER 14“The River, the Lord, and me.” (Part 1) I have stood out on the rim of the Grand Canyon looking out over that broad expanse in amazement and wonder.

OUT TO PASTOR: I didn’t do it my way

I don’t think I’ve learned very much during my life. I just bounce from day to day and take what comes.The one thing I did learn as I look back is, for the most part, I didn’t do it my way.Remember Frank Sinatra and his song, “I Did It My Way?

ON THE JOB TRAINING (part 29)

Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (Chapter 13)

CHAPTER 13“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: 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.