By Tom Cash “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25). When the world was simpler, when I was a rather innocent 9-year-old, I gave my life to Jesus Christ. Our minister, M. M. Scott, met me as I walked up the center aisle at the end […]
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 […]