Evendays

I crawled up the ladder late on Christmas Eve and tucked the newborn baby into the hay. Twice even! It’s the tradition around here that the baby is placed in the manger at midnight. I cheat because of the cold and because of the hour.
25 people came to the Advent Calendar Open House. Not the [...]

Two of our kids have tutoring jobs that earn them some pocket money and keep them off the streets. Recently, a couple who often visit the church told about a project they carry out in Equator (where she’s from) every Christmastime. They prepare food baskets for poor families and distribute them in the name of [...]

A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven [...]

For all those Yancey readers, check out the new post here. It’s on chapter 9: "What difference does it make?". 
Read the chapter if you’ve got the book. If not, you’ll get the general drift from the post.
Would love to hear your comments… 

The Ukraine trip went well. Must have eaten something that didn’t agree with me 48 hours before flying back to Switzerland. The WC confinement took off about 8 pounds, but I was able to escape that helpful room twice to teach the scheduled lessons to the church. God was merciful. And he does answer prayer.
It’s [...]

Greetings from Ternopil, Ukraine (not CHERNOBYL, Ukraine).
So far I’ve learned:

This is the warmest winter in years;
My host lost her grandfather at Stalingrad during the war. They never found him;
Lots of people eat carp. You can buy them live, pulling them out of zinc buckets, and they cost between 2 and 3 dollars [...]

We’ve made friends with H. She’s about our age. She was a “boat-person” and escaped communist Vietnam with all of her brothers and sisters. I think they are 8 or 9 all together, and they all live in the USA except for H.
We were doing a Let’s Start Talking lesson one afternoon in October when [...]

I had the privilege of teaching last night in Geneva the passage from 1 Peter 4.1-11. Peter reminds the reader that since Christ suffered for sin and because he will judge both the living and the dead in the end, lives should be focused on the will of God rather than on the desires of [...]

Wife, Son 1 and Son 2 are all Sherlock Holmes’ fans. I just learned last night at the dinner table that the famous detective was a drug user. I asked which drug and found out it was heroine.
The conversation shifted to how you take certain drugs. "Can you sniff heroine?", Daughter asked. No, we answered. [...]