Testimony: My ‘Aha’ Moment
01. January 2012
“Are we really bound for the promised land?” I asked When I am blessed to hear the testimony of how others came to Christ, many times ...
01. January 2012
“Are we really bound for the promised land?” I asked When I am blessed to hear the testimony of how others came to Christ, many times ...
01. July 2011
The Early Years Orlena was born Jan. 15, 1922, in Sparta, Ill., the daughter of Thomas Lynn and Marguer-ite McMurtry. When Thomas married Marguerite, ...
01. May 2011
My father became the pastor of the Seattle, Wash., RPC in 1936, when I was 7 years old. The Seattle congregation therefore was my home church. In ...
01. January 2011
I love words! Once you begin a conversation with me, you might as well sit down. I love the way you can move words around and say the same things in ...
16. December 2010
In God’s providence, I was born in a Christian home, the fifth child of my parents. My sister Gisela was the third child. My mother and father had ...
16. December 2010
I was born in Germany, the third of six children, and grew up in Frielinghausen, a small village in the Rhineland. My father was of a very old ...
01. June 2010
I had the extraordinary privilege of knowing my father for over 78 years. Not many fathers live to be 106. Waldo McBurney was born Oct. 3, 1902, near ...
28. November 2009
Sitting in construction traffic, squinting into the June sunlight, I glanced at the time and sighed in relief. Maybe I would be home early. My mind ...
28. October 2009
If you ask Bob Hemphill when he graduated from Geneva College, he’ll just smile. “I did not graduate,” he says firmly. “Everybody thinks I ...
08. May 2008
As a child, I feared many things, one of which was Halloween. On a particularly dark Halloween night, when I was about 5 years old, I made a ...
01. July 2007
“How do you like Australia?” a new acquaintance asked in late August. “Yeah, it’s been good,” I replied with a bit of a grin. “We ...
06. June 2007
Which pleases God more? To work one’s way up the ladder of success, eventually reaching leadership positions where one has great influence for ...
01. May 2007
What is a 24-year-old Hoosier girl aspiring to a Ph.D. in cognitive science doing at a seminary in Pittsburgh? Call it providence. In September ...
01. January 2007
When I was a child, my family occasionally attended a Lutheran church near my house. We didn’t go often, so I didn’t hear the gospel or come to a ...
08. August 2006
If I were to pick a favorite verse from the Bible to describe the special relationship that I have with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, it would be, ...
01. May 2006
“Yes, Grandpa, I have asked Jesus to be my Savior.” This was the answer my 12-year-old grandson gave following my inquiry about his ...
15. March 2006
I was born in Cambodia in 1958. Now it is called the Kingdom of Cambodia. While growing up, I believed Buddha was God. The communists, Khmer Rouge, ...
01. February 2006
I grew up in a home where we attended church regularly and were taught to live a good, moral life. When I was 10, I became a member of my church. By ...
01. January 2006
Ever since I was little, I have had trouble remembering things. I used to think maybe my life was too ordinary to be worth remembering. Little did I ...
01. January 2006
It started with a phone call. Katya needed me. She was getting married in a month (Russians will do that kind of thing) and needed help with the ...