Evendays

I can remember coming home from school at 2 pm at the age of 17 and finding my mom laying on the couch crying. She was 5 months pregnant and had had a doctor’s appointment that morning. I thought the worst, but then she started laughing, which was very weird.
She explained that the doctor [...]

On Friday and Saturday, I spent a little more than 24 hours near Macon, France with about 30 servants from the different assemblies of churches of Christ from France, Belgium and Switzerland. The Bible studies were encouraging and the 3 panels on different challenges facing churches in our part of the world were helpful. The [...]

You’ve heard the story of the preacher’s family with a load of folks over for Sunday lunch. When they finally sat down to eat, the preacher asked his little daughter to pray. She was embarrassed and said she didn’t know what to pray. “Well, just pray like mommy!”, he replied. So everyone bowed their heads [...]

—Brad has a new post up at Biblos on Yancey’s book. Please check it out!— —
Historically, people have “done missions” in many different ways. There are those who “go native”, completely leaving their home culture behind, dressing, eating and speaking like the locals. (Some don’t even speak to their kids in their mother tongue.) Others [...]

On Sunday, November 26, we will be spending time in prayer rather than working through the habitual sermon. We will be praying for the church here, our future, and for each one of the members. It’s been a rough year and several are feeling “beat up”, if you know what I mean, so a time [...]

I found his cold, dead body in the grass under the cherry tree. Our hedgehog, Harrison Jr., was in pretty bad shape. I guess the foxes got to him. Or maybe the neighborhood cats. I thought about roping off the area and asking Son 1 to use his three weeks of forensic science studies to [...]

For the last two days, two hard workers have been banging on the window frames of our house, removing the old windows. It’s harder than normal to get much work done.
The house was built in 1937 and still had the original, wood, double pane glass windows. I’m no fan of all that’s modern, but we [...]

Sunday we were a small group. Some were traveling, some were sick, some were tired. Some sick AND tired.
Ex-neighbor came with one of her sons. She’s been taking care of her dying mom the last couple of months. She asked us to pray for her mom and the family. She felt grateful for some [...]

There’s a new post for Yancey’s book, Prayer, over at the site Biblos. Do check it out.
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We just finished a discussion-study on 1 John, something we’ve been doing in our home for the last couple of months. I’ve been reading through Dr. Tom Olbricht’s little book on 1 John that he wrote for the 2005 [...]

(Do see Wednesday’s post if you don’t get it.)
Son 2 has decided, thanks to Steve’s comment, to abandon training for the ministry to become a doctor and provoke pregnant women, even if he won’t make a lot of money.
And YES, Evendays has a new nephew. Ethan Miles was born on November 8 (an [...]