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 […]
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 […]