This is my 100th “Yield” blog. It seems quite impossible that anyone should want to read 100 of my writings. I’ve always said that I will write what God gives me for as long as He gives it to me. So here we are… 100 blogs in.
Did you ever watch “Hee Haw”? Growing up, our family did. Every week. I can’t say it was my favorite show, but there was this song “Gloom Despair And Agony On Me”, which was often entertaining, and even a little relatable.
When we come to Christ, we are “born again”, and thus we are considered “babes in Christ”. Like a child, we are learning to walk and talk and dress and act like a Christian. We fall down...
The year was 1990. We were pastoring a church. In that denomination, every couple of years there was a “renewal vote” when members voted on whether or not to keep us as pastor of that church...
I like to hike, especially in the mountains. The higher I go, the more encouraged and strengthened I become. But inevitably, before that encouragement...
Have you ever noticed that many of the personalities around us – family and friends – can be directly traced to “Winnie the Pooh” characters? My grandmother, saintly as she was, was definitely...
He was shot down on Good Friday. Injured, he evaded capture and climbed 7000 feet to hide in the mountain crags. Upon connection with those who would become his savior, his first words...
Every so often, I come across an original word, either Greek or Hebrew, that perks my attention and causes me to either re-think or ponder deeper the meaning of that word, and how it applies to me.