Once when my youngest son was just beginning to toddle around the house, I was tasked with the job of watching him for the afternoon. I was in seminary at the time and it was rather difficult to be getting the sleep I needed while balancing work, school, and family. I decided to lay down on the sofa with my son on my chest hoping we would both be able to catch some much needed z’s; however, only one of…
In one of my former ministries, there were two families that barely preceded me there. One was brought to faith and discipled by my predecessor and the other had recently moved to the area and were looking for a good church. They both had kids of a similar age and they were both broken families. The one had been married previously, then divorced, then reconciled after the wife had three kids from a mediating relationship (they had one child together),…
I had a girl in my youth group whose life was drastically changed over a weekend. We were headed to a youth conference in MN and this girl was constantly asking if we could stop so she could use the bathroom. Now if you’ve ever been that guy or that girl who is asking that question, you know how that goes over. On the way home we were kind of in a hurry because we were supposed to be rendezvousing…
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module (SM) upon which the Command Module depended. In the movie made to retell the story of the Apollo 13 mission, the mission commander calls all of…