Evendays

Just got back from a 45 minute trip to Romainmôtier, an abbey in a monastic village at the base of the Jura mountains. It’s a little below freezing but as clear as can be. Alps are across the lake, though they seem much closer, while the Jura mountains ring our side of the water.
There was [...]

We’ll be with about 40 Christians tonight to pray in the New Year. Sounds like a great way to bring in 2010.
2009? Well, although I loved certain days, there were some pretty rough times right in the middle of it. Bad news and sad news seemed to fill up the Spring and Summer, and I [...]

It seems that this summer there are more people and situations to pray for than ever before. We keep our niece M. in our prayers every day. We continue to pray for Susan G. who was diagnosed with breast cancer just after leaving Pepperdine Lausanne, and we pray daily for Lynn A. (To check up [...]

We lived the inauguration “live” here in Europe with all ears and eyes tuned in to the happenings on the Potomac. It took place at 6 PM our time, those who came to the Geneva weekly Bible study (at 7 PM) told me what news they had heard before leaving home or while on the [...]

Here’s my current prayer list. I go through it several times a week and the people mean the world to me.

Rick P.: He’s Christ’s servant who’s been in Kiev, always ready to give me a hand when I come through. He’s gotten terribly sick (no details) and is now in the hospital in Canada. What [...]

We picked up Jack at the airport late Monday. He’d been in Spain visiting Juan Monroy, an old friend. He wanted to come see Wife and me, even though it took going through London Heathrow, a major mess these days. Love knows no bounds…
Jack has meant much to our family, especially to Wife’s parents. He [...]

While on the subject of prayer, many of you know that we in Lausanne have the tradition of reading through  Psalms, one psalm each Sunday, one after the other. I wanted to write praying through the Psalms, but I think some of the psalms just get read-through and not prayed-through. I’m talking about myself, not [...]

The Tuesday prayer group at the local Protestant Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud (that really is its name) always has two antiphonal prayers… One at the beginning and another, appropriately, at the end. One of the weekly participants, a very kind, yet very-old-enough-to-know-she-can-speak-her-mind lady, told me she hates those prayers. (I kind [...]

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 [...]

Mary* became a Christian about 3 years ago. She moved to another part of Switzerland last year and I encouraged her to dedicate herself to a local church in that part of the country (where there are no churches of Christ). She found a charismatic group not too far away and has been attending there [...]