RSS FeedEASTER AND RESURRECTION
On September 7, 1952 my beloved grandmother died aged 59. It was totally unexpected. She had a heart attack and in those days there was little the local physician could do to deal with her blood clot. They gave her brandy to ease her discomfort. Having had two heart...
MAUNDY THURSDAY
“Jesus knew that the time has come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.” (John 13:1) What a way to describe your last night? When we die we leave this world and go to the Father. It is a journey from here to the presence of the Father. It is to leave the...
PALM SUNDAY
Palm Sunday reminds me of Corrie ten Boom who always replied when people praised her for her Christian ministry that she was only the donkey on whom Jesus rode. May we learn from her humility! Jesus, King of the universe; ride on in humble majesty: Lord, this Palm...
ADOLESCENCE
As I look back on my life I must have been a very idealistic adolescent. While I devoured the usual boy’s comic books such as Eagle, Rover, Classics Illustrated and many others, I also haunted the local public library housed in a Carnegie building and read...
GOD KNOWS WHERE THEY COME FROM!
As I approach my 84th birthday I find myself thinking about my past. Recently, when visiting a friend who is older than I he shared his research into his family history. Perhaps it is the characteristic of old age that we look back over the years and are curious about...
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
TIMELESS TRUTHS FROM ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
WE HAVE CEASED TO SEE THE PURPOSE, is the title of ten of the essential speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, edited by his son Ignat Solzhenitsyn which has just been published by the University of Notre Dame Press. His Nobel Lecture in 1972 focuses on the necessity of...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CROSS
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God…..we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block and foolishness to non-Christians…For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus...
WHAT CAN I LEARN IN THIS STAGE OF MY LIFE?
William Willimon, Methodist Bishop and former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, commented about the message of the Passion Gospel: “In a feel-good, sin-denying, death-avoiding world, this story of evil, of sin, of goodness challenged, of divine love, goes against...
GOD’S NEW SOCIETY
One of my prized possessions is a first edition copy of God’s New Society by John Stott. It is inscribed: “Ted and Antoinette, with love, gratitude and good wishes, John. Christmas 1979” In his introduction he writes: The letter to the Ephesians is a marvelously...
Recent Comments