I want to give some context and our method for non-religious church. I lived in China 10 years before getting married here and have now been married 18 years. My wife was 24 years old and had left atheism to confess to God at age 20 before I met and started to date and then marry her. I had grown up in a Lutheran church where most people did not believe but were religious. I learned ministry thought from the …
Last week, I blogged on my Great Grandfather. Today I want to blog on Lessons From My Grandfather. And Yes, Light peeks in. Grandfather Nelson lost his mother at age 13 and then had an alcoholic father and a family that even went hungry and moved across country twice after being rich. Very tough teenage years. Hard to blame him for anything that happened. Given his family, he had little education and big loss in his heart. Too bad his …
What is the most important date in world history? To me everything changed on the day Jesus died. Occurring in roughly 30 AD that date, Good Friday is the Fulcrum of History. Let me do an aside. Jesus Birth is not the Main Thing In 525 AD, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus of Scythia Minor set the date 1 AD for the birth of Christ and the beginning of the Year of our Lord. That became popular for all of …
Choices we make in tragedy impact a long way. My Great Grandfather John M Nelson was born in Norway in 1869. His father was a stern man and when his mother died when he was 11, all childhood went with it. He had to go to work to float his family. At roughly age 21 he moved to the US and met Jensine Olsen, also a Norwegian immigrant. They lost a few houses to tragedy. One to a flood of …
