Category: Life Purpose and Mission
-
Finding Your Spiritual Home
Read Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Children shouldn’t have been throwing the ball in the church’s fellowship hall downstairs, but they were… and the inevitable happened: striking the wall by accident, the boys left a small, indented “crater.” One of the older men came in the next morning with his tools, calling out to me as he…
-
Mission Possible!
Read Isaiah 6:1-8 In the TV series Mission Impossible, Jim Phelps received his secret mission assignments from a mysterious voice on a tape recorder. Listening carefully, Phelps would hear the voice say “Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it…” Wouldn’t it be great if God sent out tapes like that? Yet, God has…
-
The Cemetery Next Door
In 2003 my wife and I made a run down to Yazoo City, Miss. for the funeral of her grandmother. A wonderful believer born in 1916, she lived her entire life in the hills just above the Delta cotton fields with a simple faith and an unconditional love for people. Conducting her funeral in a…