“Steven, you got a telephone call,” my dad announced one Saturday morning. He was oddly excited about it, eager to tell me the whole story. I had just crawled out of bed, a college student coming in the kitchen at 9 o’clock looking for some cereal. “Why didn’t you wake me up?” “Well, he calledContinue reading “DISCIPLESHIP: Grow With G.R.A.M.P.S. Deuteronomy 2.”
Category Archives: In the Wilderness
God Sends His Recruits to Boot Camp. Exodus 14:11.
Image: Paratroopers from the 11th Airborne division training at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in the early 1950s. My father could be in this picture. From https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/18zacz8/11th_airborne_paratroopers_jump_training_in_fort/ “Where do you think you’re going, Wales!” The sergeant screamed at my dad, a young recruit in basic training. The men were inside a gas chamber. The rule was, theContinue reading “God Sends His Recruits to Boot Camp. Exodus 14:11.”
ALONE. Luke 4:1-7.
The adventure show ALONE is so popular it has spawned foreign-language versions in Danish and Norwegian, and English versions filmed in Australia and Britain. And I’m reading the Bible and find myself imagining the scene as an episode of the show: “Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness 40Continue reading “ALONE. Luke 4:1-7.”
Household Words: 