... human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine. He cuts down cedars or chooses a holm tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a ... loving Lord, one who loved us so much that he died that we might live. Let us pray. O God, we know that the commandments were given for our benefit, to keep us from confusing means and ... , Uncommon Common Sense, Vol. II, The Ten Commandments, (Greensboro: Worth Family Foundation, 1997), p. 34 6. W. Herschel Ford, Simple Sermons ...
When our children and grandchildren were here for Christmas, it gave me the perfect opportunity to do something I have wanted to do for some time… make a picture of all four grandchildren together. Sarah (age 12), Paul (age 9) and Dawson (age 6) all were cooperating beautifully, and then there was Daniel!... who was not interested in my picture-taking project at all. There are two reasons for that… - 1st Daniel is 4 years old; - And, 2nd, Daniel is very independent and his philosophy of life is: “I’m doing ...
Someone who grew up in Europe immediately after the devastation of World War II writes about the two staples that were not on ration and that could be home produced; one was potatoes and the other was bread. "We could grow our own potatoes and we could make our own bread," he writes. "And sometimes we would even make bread out of the potatoes. So, while we may have lacked many things we always had sufficient potatoes and bread." Earlier in John chapter 6, we read about food rationing of another kind. Then ...
It happened almost twenty years ago. I had been here at St. Luke’s for only a few months. It was a beautiful spring day. The phone rang in our home on a Sunday afternoon. I answered and a young man on the other end of the line said he needed to tell me something and then ask me a question. The words came in a rush of emotion. He told me that a month ago, he was in our church and he felt God touching his heart and urging him to come down front to be baptized and to join the church. “It was so powerful,” he ...
It happened almost twenty years ago. I had been here at St. Luke’s for only a few months. It was a beautiful spring day. The phone rang in our home on a Sunday afternoon. I answered and a young man on the other end of the line said he needed to tell me something and then ask me a question. The words came in a rush of emotion. He told me that a month ago, he was in our church and he felt God touching his heart and urging him to come down front to be baptized and to join the church. “It was so powerful,” he ...
Norval Christy was fifteen years old when he agreed with the Lord that everything he possessed was a gift and that he was willing to use it in God’s service however, whenever, and wherever God chose. After attending Westminster College in Pennsylvania, Norval applied to Harvard Medical School and was accepted in spite of long odds. He was in the process of doing his medical residency when a call came to help the thousands of refugees who were flooding into Pakistan from India. Norval agreed to interrupt ...