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The Morning I Realized I Still Didn’t Know My Own Father. . . I was sixty-eight years old, pastoring for decades, Bible worn soft from use…and one quiet Tuesday the Holy Spirit whispered, “Dick, you still don’t really know Me as Father.”

The Prodigal’s Road. . . His father had never stopped hoping; he saw the boy still far down the road and ran to embrace him, tears mixing with dust and joy on his cheeks.

The Loudest Bible in Three Counties! I owned a Bible that looked like a unicorn had exploded on the pages. Pink. Yellow. Green. Orange. Notes crammed in every margin like graffiti on a subway car. I was proud of that rainbow mess. Proof I was “in the Word.” Or was I?

How the Fruit of the Spirit actually grows. . . This fruit is a sign of God’s presence, showing qualities that grow naturally as we follow Jesus. But what exactly is The Fruit of the Spirit, and how can we grow in it?

Historical Introduction to the Churches of God, General Conference

Welcome! Here you’ll find some of our favorite websites and apps to help you read, listen to, and study the Bible.

The Day a Scholar Met an Apple. . . The story that still silences lecture halls. University of Chicago Divinity School, Baptist Day.