I am looking forward to seeing what comes out of Nate’s visit to Florida tomorrow. He has been invited to go to a literacy event hosted there by the Bush family — you can read more about it here. As I have thought about this invitation (and you can believe I have been thinking about …
The Yellow House on Howard
Last Thursday we held the memorial service for my mother In one part of the service, we asked a grandson from each of the four lines of the family to say a few things in memory of their grandmother. Here are Nate’s comments, and you can watch them below. Elizabeth Catherine Wilson – In Memoriam …
Memorial Service for Bessie Wilson
The community-wide memorial service for my mother, Bessie Wilson, has been set for Oct. 14, 2010, at the Nazarene Church in Moscow. There will be a 45 minute song service starting at 1 pm, in which we will listen to or sing some of my mother’s favorite hymns. As one who longed for Heaven, she …
Elizabeth Catherine Dodds Wilson (1919-2010)
This morning my mother went to be with her Lord and Savior after many extraordinarily fruitful years of serving Him. She was 91, and had been a follower of Christ for 75 of those years. All three of her sons live here in Moscow, and my sister Heather, who lives in California, arrived last night …
Welcome to Blaire
Please join with us in thanking the Lord for the safe arrival of our newest grandchild — Blaire Aubrey Alette Jankovic. Mom and daughter are doing great. God is good.
Sunny Sea
We are very grateful to God for last night’s safe arrival of our 14th grandchild, Marisol Helen Wilson, a gift of God to Nate and Heather. She weighed in at 9 lb. 12 oz., and appears to like everybody.
All to the Good
Today is my mother’s ninetieth birthday. Below is a poem I wrote twenty years ago, for her seventieth. The poem assumes what needs to be stated outright, which is that my mother is one of the most remarkable women I have ever known. What I owe her will never be repaid, and that is all …
Is This the Prayer Request Equivalent of a Bogus 911 Call?
Nancy and I are enjoying the great privilege this weekend of visiting with the good folks at Christ the Word in Toledo, Ohio. Christ the Word is where David Bayly ministers — and what a gathering of warm-hearted Christians. I will be preaching for them on the Lord’s Day, and Nancy is speaking for their …
And Then There is the Not So Militant Atheism
My daughter has a chuckle or two with some street level apologetics.
BBQ Pit in Narnia
Here’s a quick snap of our front yard — I remember George Grant was here one time in February, and he made a great deal of fun of our snow-covered barbecue, as though to live in a place where spring has to arrive makes the idea of cooking meat outdoors untenable — but I digress.