Evendays

The French Open (Roland Garros) started on Sunday and will continue for 15 days. The question here for the avid and not so avid tennis fan in central Europe is simple: Are you Nadal or Federer?
For those of you out of the tennis loop, Raphael Nadal is the mega-bicepped Spanish clay-court specialist who has won [...]

Here is a translated, antiphonal prayer from a Reformed Protestant tradition, Crêt-Bernard, that we’ll be using to guide our thoughts on Pentecost Sunday. (Yup, this Sunday!):–Holy Spirit, Creator, who in the beginning hovered over the waters, by your breath every being received life.
     Holy Spirit, come!
Holy Spirit, Counselor, who inspired the prophets as they spoke [...]

Even though there are only a million French-speakers in Switzerland, we’ve got our own national television station. One of the monthly shows brings musicians and singers from all over the world to Geneva to record before a live studio audience of several hundred music lovers.
Alain Morisod hosts the show. Last Saturday night he had [...]

I have enjoyed reading your comments from the last few posts and am thankful for this way of keeping in touch with you. It makes me feel “connected”.–As usual, we attended the annual retreat in Ardeche, France during the Ascension weekend. This year, all of the speakers were “amateurs”, that is, they were not paid [...]

I know you probably missed it. Yet it’s one of the few Protestant holidays with Christian roots. Not Jewish. Not pagan. Just Christian.
When Jesus had led the disciples out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into [...]

I’ve spent at least 2 work days getting a flyer ready for our short Geneva campaign in June. Dr. Robert McCready will be in Switzerland with a small group of Harding University students, all of whom study French. They’re here to help small churches in Switzerland, France and Belgium.

About 18,000 of the flyers will end [...]

Sons 1 and 2 and I sang last Friday night with the regional high school chorus. The concert took place in the St. François Church in the middle of Lausanne. A fun building from the 13th century, it stands lopsided (which you only notice from the inside) having shifted over the years because of the [...]

Trying to deal with “words”, using only 200 of them (or less) can leave “holes in a post”.
I took Deb’s comments to heart. I’m not sure a Spirit-filled, truthful message can be hurtful, for that implies ultimate intent. Spirit-filled messages may hurt, but their goal is to make aware and correct, to bring healing. Proverbs [...]

There’s a consulting firm near Geneva that has several well-known international companies as clients. The firm must write up reports in English and send them to these companies. Often they are just personality profiles or simple interview summaries. A couple times a week, I receive reports and do a quick read-over, correcting a handful of [...]

 
We host a meal about twice a month, where people can come to the house, eat Wife’s good cooking and practice their English afterwards when I lead a discussion on a Bible text. Normally, it’s just our family with one or two people from church and a couple of visitors. The discussion lasts an hour, [...]