... new minds, love with new hearts. We begin to live and move and experience our being from a whole different perspective. We are alive in Christ. Salvation is not pie in the sky; it's life down here." I've been reading Tracey Stewart's biography of her late husband—pro golfer Payne Stewart. I no longer play golf. I just fantasize about it. As Tracey describes the up-and- down life of a pro golfer, she says, “We began to sense a need for a stronger religious foundation in our home. We were raised in the ...
... Abraham Lincoln than I do, but son,” he added with a gleam in his eyes, “I knew Abraham Lincoln.” The grandson had information about Lincoln. The grandfather knew Lincoln personally. There is a difference between knowing about Christ and knowing him personally. Professional golfer Payne Stewart knew that difference. Before his death in a plane crash a few years back, Stewart had found that one thing for which he was searching. Sports Illustrated took notice. In its coverage of the U.S. Open before ...
Series on the Book of Job, #3 Suggested music: "A Few Questions" (See the forward to this series) Author Sheila Walsh tells of meeting Debbie Arden. Debbie's husband was the agent for golfer Payne Stewart. He and Stewart died in a freak airplane accident a few years ago. Debbie Arden claims that her husband's death led her to a new place of assurance and faith in God. As she said, "God used the death of my beloved husband to, as Oswald Chambers said, "˜Pierce a hole in ...
... years ago. It was about a 5-year-old Texas boy who was accidentally left behind at a Nashville, Tennessee, service station. Tyler Payne got out of the family station wagon to use the rest room, then couldn’t get out of the building because the door ... asked Michelle—for the second time—if she would be his wife. They got re-married in 2004. In returning to the church, Michelle Stewart found new life in Jesus Christ. And this new life in Christ led to the healing of her marriage and her family. (6) Is ...