By Cindy Tuttle From the time I was a baby, my parents blessed me by taking me to church. They taught me to put God first. They read God’s Word to my brother and me and taught us to turn to God and his Word when we needed answers for life’s problems. They taught […]
The Lesson and Life — for December 29, 2013
By Tom Cash While preaching my first sermon about stewardship in a small country church, the former church treasurer keeled over in the pew. No pulse, no breathing. Fortunately on that particular Sunday, four nurses, a surgeon, and an anesthesiologist were worshipping with us. We called 911 and the children were dismissed to Sunday […]
The Lesson and Life — for December 22, 2014
By Tom Cash Can I brag on our grandchildren for a moment? While ministering in Indiana, we lived 75 miles from our son’s family. On a busy December Sunday afternoon, we traveled south to attend our grandkids’ Christmas program. Because of extra obligations that day, we walked through their church doors five minutes after […]
The Lesson and Life — for December 15, 2013
By Tom Cash I woke up around 4 a.m. as my Uncle Bob passed two trucks. He began drifting toward the left into the median. Assuming he fell asleep, I called his name. He did not respond. Bob couldn’t respond; he died at the wheel. The car went off I-80, became airborne, flipped, and landed upright […]
The Lesson and Life — for December 8, 2013
By Tom Cash On November 16, 2007 my wife and I attended the National Missionary Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. Yoon Kwon Chae from the Korean Christian Gospel Mission was preaching. He shared a personal story about the horrors of war. Chae’s father was a minister imprisoned by the Communists at the beginning of the […]