Investing in the Kingdom
A good friend turned 95 this last week (you know who you are), and it startled me to realize just how fast the time is flying. I remember this particular birthday because we had been commissioned to send a comment on his 70th that day. But that was the day the world stood still, 9/11. I’m guessing there wasn’t much celebration that day. Do you realise that was 25 years ago already? So, we heard a good sermon while we were on the ship recently. It was delivered by a very humble and straightforward layman passenger, not a great orator or decorated scholar. When I commented to him afterwords, I said, “I’ve heard a lot of great preachers, and I’m married to one as well, but that was absolutely a great sermon and I won’t forget it soon.” He almost cried to feel that God would use him in such a way. We weren’t the only ones blessed to hear him speak that day. People were lined up with comments and questions so that it looked like backstage after a Tay...