Various The year before we moved to Rabat, we visited our youngest daughter who was living in Tanzania. We spent one of our three weeks on a safari which was an absolutely wonderful experience and which included a hot air balloon ride. I have ridden in a hot air balloon only once in my life…
Various texts We are into week four of our series of sermons on foundations of our faith. Thus far we have talked about Paul’s three stages of salvation: justification, I have been saved; sanctification, I am being saved; and glorification, I will be saved. This morning we come to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit….
Various Don Quixote is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes during the Spanish Golden Age in the early 1600s. In this novel, Don Quixote is a member of Spanish nobility who does not own any property. He decides to bring the culture of chivalry back and sets out as a knight in shining armor…
Various There have been 481 earthquakes greater than magnitude 2.5 in the last week. There have also been metaphorical earthquakes in our lives when the ground beneath our feet was shaken. How strong is our faith? Will our faith enable us to stand up and not fall during these metaphorical earthquakes? How firm is our…
Apostles’ Creed Will heaven be boring? One of my favorite Mark Twain books is Letters from the Earth. The first part of this book is composed of letters that Lucifer, who went to earth to investigate the situation, wrote back to his fellow archangels, Michael and Gabriel. He begins by writing about the human view…