"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud." (1 Corinthians 14:4 NIV)"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law." (Romans 13:8 NIV)I was...
"Freely you have received; freely give." (Matthew 10:8b NIV)I was 16 years old and on a week long trip to visit a Seminary college in Iowa. On the way our group had stopped in Chicago for a few days. We were staying in a building owned by the church on the...
My grandfather was a doctor in London, England. In 1893, he unexpectedly took ill and died.He left my grandmother as a young widow, 26 years old, with four children: a boy of six, a girl of four, my father aged two, and a new-born baby girl.There were no social safety...
Why are some believers so judgmental?On June 7, 1944, after V-day in Normandy, King Leopold the Third, King of Belgium, was deported to Germany with his family under suspicion of collaboration with the Germans. On September 8, 1944 the Belgian population celebrated...
"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."...
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." (Galatians 5:1 NIV)"Dad! There's a dog in the back yard."It was a few years ago during a sweltering Summer day. It hadn't rained in...
Over the past couple weeks, I have been telling the stories of a "memorable" vacation that I went on with my parents when I was about 17 years-old. Ever in love with anything American, my father took us across the Atlantic to visit the Big Apple: New York City!I truly...