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All Changed into Blessing
What’s in a name? As parents about to be at the rather advanced age of 40 and 41 we felt especially blessed that a first child was on the way. We had been married 17 years when we found out…
Read MoreHoly Resilience
It is ever into a world torn asunder that faith is birthed. Isaiah speaks to a desolate people, brutally slaughtered, hauled off to exile. Sing us a song of Zion their captors taunted. “How can we sing the Lord’s song…
Read MoreFire From an Old Stump
As a young boy I was immersed in our family’s history. Both sides. From my father’s side, it was West Virginia and the Forneys who had been on that land since 1804. There’s where the family graveyard sits, on a…
Read MoreInstruction Shall Go Forth
“Johnny, don’t go beyond the curb,” my mother would admonish me when I asked to go outside. And if the ball goes out into the street, let someone go get it for you. All instructions to keep me safe. Later…
Read MoreThe Day is Coming
At a student conference at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, I first encountered a mature, muscular understanding of the Christian faith I had received from Sunday school. The Rev. Joseph Wesley Matthews had been holding forth for…
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