Posts Tagged: Story


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May 11

Do not Forsake your Mother’s teaching…

January 8, 1985 I officially became a Cable according to the State of Ohio.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching; indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head, and ornaments about your neck.”

On January 8 of 1985 I was redeemed.  Two people took me out of a poor situation and took me into their hearts and home and adopted me.  My birth mother drank through my pregnancy.  My true mother would nurse me through every childhood ache and illness.  My birth father was quiet, emotionally removed, and likely an alcoholic.  My true father would teach me to play ball as my true grandpa had done and he would lay in my bed one summer night until my brother and I fell asleep.  Continue reading →


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Apr 11

Self-Pity: A way that seems right…

I want to write on some passages that have been the power of God for me in the midst of trial in the past weeks.  As I’ve walked through this many battles with my flesh have risen.  Contrary to what I had assumed, trial actually increases my desire to give into my flesh.  In His wisdom, this is part of God’s design for suffering: like a furnace it burns and reveals impurities in  the temptations that come in its midst (James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 4:12-13) and he has armed us to endure it (2 Peter 4:1-2; 1 Cor 10:13-14).

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Nov 10

Remember…

I want to remember.

I’m so prone to forgetting.

I was standing at one of the main sessions of the EFCA national conference overwhelmed with tears of affirmation.  God had been doing many things in my heart at that time.  This was a time of extraordinary revelation of God’s desire for my life.  Previous to the conference I had been preparing to raise support and join the Miami Crusade team.  One day, as I was praying and reading, I was struck with an abrupt doubt.  I remember saying out loud, “Could I have missed it?”  I felt this strong conviction coming over me that God did not want me to continue my internship with Crusade.  I felt Him say, “You haven’t asked me what I want you to do, you’ve simply assumed.”  Whether I should have stopped that summer to seek God for my next step is still unclear to me.  I was moving forward with the things that I felt he had set before me.  But nonetheless, he had interjected.

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Oct 10

J. Hudson Taylor – A Man Transformed

J. Hudson Taylor was gripped by God with a deep longing to see the Gospel break forth in the inland regions of China.  Gripped, is indeed the most appropriate word, his desire transformed his life before he ever even stepped foot on Chinese soil.

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