Mysterious Providence Working For Us

Mysterious Providence Working For Us

by | Apr 21, 2023

It is said, “God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.”  I would like to tell you about one. It does not start out happy. It ends better. A man in a former church was a bully.  An engineer with no apparent emotional capacity, he dominated...
Working At It

Working At It

by | Apr 14, 2023

Do you remember this scene from the movie The Sound of Music?  Fraulein Maria is entertaining the seven von Trapp children on a mountain meadow. I confess to being totally taken in by this movie. It is utterly charming.  The beauty of spirit and attitude seen in Maria...
Standing Up on Water Skis

Standing Up on Water Skis

by | Mar 24, 2023

The lesson was on being dependent on the Holy Spirit and avoiding a frontal charge of human effort to achieve spiritual progress. Everyone was nodding and agreeing that we do not want to try to do God’s work depending on the arm of flesh. We want God’s power; God has...
Mountains are Not Meant to Envy

Mountains are Not Meant to Envy

by | Mar 17, 2023

Guest Author John Piper Mountains are not meant to be envied. In fact, they are not meant to even be possessed by anyone on earth. They are, as David said, “. . . the mountains of God” (Ps. 36:6). If you try to make a Minnesota hill imitate a mountain, you will make a...
Cabin Fever (Genesis 8)

Cabin Fever (Genesis 8)

by | Mar 3, 2023

Cabin Fever refers to too many people being in too small a space for too long. It can happen in a small mountain cabin, or a car stuck in traffic, or when your children are sick for three days and the whole family is pretty much on lock-down.  That was certainly...