10:21 PM “First Watch” for men begins in 11 days. 10:17 PM Updating “God Speaks Today” Wednesday, September 15 Focus on the Family video, 7 PM, Santuary. Sunday, September 19 “Staying Pure in an X-Rated World” Wednesday, September 22 Focus on the Family Video, 7 PM, Sanctuary. Sunday, September 26 “The Truth …
10:52 PM A nice surprise tonight. Just before I left the motel to go to the conference, I got a call from Nick at Samford University in Birmingham. “Dad, I’m thinking about coming over to see you tonight.” It’s about a three-hour drive from Birmingham to Canton, Georgia. When I got back to the motel after the service to…
11:50 AM Check out this week’s Christian Carnival, featuring entries by various Christian bloggers arranged around the theme, “Be Thou My Vision.” 11:46 AM I have just written an entry for the Crosswalk weblog called We Should Do This More Often. 11:13 AM Nice note from Bob Cosby in Logansport, Indiana: Right after we m…
9:49 AM Nice surprise: I received a postcard wishing me Happy Birthday from the Brown Cow Ice Cream Parlor in Forest Park. The postcard entitles me to a free scoop of ice cream, and I have until October 1 to use it. Sweet deal. 9:47 AM I’m having lunch with Brian Bill today. He lives in Pontiac so that means I’ll be leaving…
5:17 PM I’m holding in my hands a lovely new book called “A Mountain Rainbow” by Debbie Hodson. Let me quote from the back cover: “Set in the Southern Appalachians in the late 1930s, A Mountain Rainbow is the heartwarming story of Nellie who carries a lifelong love of the region in her heart.” The story is beautiful…
9:59 PM Today’s entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Make All the Good People Nice. 8:48 PM I’ve done more bike riding than usual in the last week—along the North Branch Trail, the Prairie Path to Wheaton, south into Berwyn and Cicero, from North Avenue to Central, then south through Austin into Cicero, to 26th Str…
SHOULD WE USE THE BIBLE IN THE MARRIAGE DEBATE? by Ray Pritchard At first, the question seems unnecessary. Of course we will use the Bible in the great debate over marriage. How could Christians avoid the Bible? And why should we? Before answering that question, consider an article by Don Wycliff, the “public editor…
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 20046:51 PM We just had a special treat. A few days ago Sharon Jahns dropped off a basket of fresh peaches she and Dick picked in Michigan. Tonight Marlene made hot peach cobbler using a recipe she got many years ago from Ellen Hale in Whittier, CA. We had hot peach cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream, and since Nick and Josh…
6:18 PM Friday shout-out to Buddy and LeeAnne Nichols in Chattanooga, Roger Glass, Bruce Goettsche, Eric AuCoin, Nellie Schultz, Danielle Moseley in Morocco, David and Vera Beil-Adaskin, Laura Hurni, and David Livingston in Atlanta. 6:17 PM Counting down the days … 5 days until the Concert of Prayer for “God Speaks…