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 […]
The Lesson and Life — for December 1, 2013
By Tom Cash “Christmas can’t come soon enough!” Have you heard this from others? Or, like me, have you said it yourself? It is true: this year some retailers began displaying their Christmas wares as early as July. In the secular world, Christmas easily trumps every other holiday. Some businesses specialize in Christmas all […]
The Lesson and Life — for November 24
By Delvin R. Sweeney When I was in grade school we broke ground on a new church building. This was a small church started by a few families who had called my dad to be their minister. A New Church After many years of meeting in the basement of a home, we were […]
The Lesson and Life — for November 17, 2013
By Delvin R. Sweeney If you grew up in a church youth group, you most likely participated in a trust fall—a fun activity where you close your eyes and fall backward, expecting others in the group to catch you. Maybe this helps us understand the trust that Moses asked the Israelites to have in […]