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On my journey of 44 years as a pastor and district superintendent, I have observed many amazing stories of God's grace. I estimate that I have had in my care more than 20,000 of God's people from Washington to Illinois to Oklahoma.
In my mind I have been making a 'top 10 list of lay people,' and…
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I once visited a church that had advertised a special event on a Sunday afternoon. I knew that church well, yet I really went as a guest for the special event. This event was supposed to wrap up all the church had done and learned during a six-week emphasis on winning new people to the Lord and for…
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It began with Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) students sitting in guest homes on a tour with their music group right after Christmas. After giving a concert that day, members of Pointless, an all-male accapella group, watched television news accounts of the tsunami that destroyed coastal…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
When I recently visited my grandmother’s old house in East Texas, I realized it had changed. The porch that my brother and I used to leap off of, seemingly risking life and limb, I could now easily manage with one step, not even needing the stairs that led to the front door. Her pasture, the “…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
It began with Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) students sitting in guest homes on a tour with their music group right after Christmas. After giving a concert that day, members of Pointless, an all-male accapella group, watched television news accounts of the tsunami that destroyed coastal…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
When I recently visited my grandmother’s old house in East Texas, I realized it had changed. The porch that my brother and I used to leap off of, seemingly risking life and limb, I could now easily manage with one step, not even needing the stairs that led to the front door. Her pasture, the “…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
Last Sunday Hazel joined our church, ending a faith journey that began some forty years ago.
Soon after my family joined the Church of the Nazarene in the 1960s, I became involved in a door-to-door evangelistic campaign. I was assigned to a low-income apartment complex near the church. I went out…
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For many years my husband and I did lots of traveling and always seemed to end up at the right place at the right time. So, why do I have these recurring dreams in which I get lost in some strange city?
This week, my dream took a different turn. I was in an inner city on a clean up crew.The filth…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
Popular music has a history of “one-hit wonders”—groups or individuals who have a break out number one hit song but are rarely heard from again, at least on the music charts.
As you read this, perhaps one such song is going through your head. Some of these songs were so impactful and sold so…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
There is a great deal of popularity regarding UFO’s and “extraterrestrial” contact. This fascination can be seen in popular entertainment through books, movies, documentaries, the internet culture, etc. It should, therefore, resonate with our greater culture when I declare the certain news that…