Here I sit all these miles from where I began–closer to the West coast than the East, a ‘landed immigrant’ in a country I knew nothing about growing up, a wife to a humble man of great faith, a mother of six (one gone ahead to glory), a grandmother to four, a friend to a […]
I alluded last week to the deceptive potential of a testimony. But it is clear in Scripture and in life that an honest retelling of what the Lord has done can be a powerful encouragement as well. It’s not always easy to put it into words though. That’s what I’ve been wrestling with this week–how […]
I’ve been struck this week by the power of a testimony, to deceive. Once upon a time testimony meetings were held among people who knew one another and shared life together. There was context for the testimony. You knew the man who stood up and thanked God he hadn’t sinned in twenty years. He was […]