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.”

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.We had reached a point in which we either would somehow stumble across a trail and get back on the right track; or we would keep moving steadily up the river and hope we see a trail from the...

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.” – MATTHEW 13:23When the seed of God’s word is planted in good soil, a heart that has been prepared for it, spiritual growth...

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.