Thank God for Extremists (March 1979) – If the charismatic movement hasn’t done anything else, it has at least re-instituted the office of the extremist in the Kingdom…
God Still Has the Last Word (April 1979) – I have found I must qualify all my “absolutes.” This is really tough on a fellow like me who has always believed he had the last word on everything. However, painfully, I have come to realize I do not have a final word from God on anything. Not yet…
Down with Disco (May 1979) – After seeing (and hearing) five children in their teens, I have been exposed to every imaginable type of music…
On Being Sent Away from the Table (July/August 1979) – Norman Vincent Peale tells the story of the time he decided to shock his mom by coming home from school one afternoon, parking his bike in the driveway, and saying, “damn it!” loud enough for her to know he was a man now…
Look Out World – I’m Me! (September 1979) – It seems I am to spend my life paddling upstream. While many of my Christian brothers are happily floating with the current, here I am doggedly battling in the opposite direction…
Don’t Fear All Hallows’ Eve (October 1979) – With interest increasing in supernatural things the spotlight now focuses on Halloween…
As 1979 Ends – The Junkman Cometh (December 1979) – Every year about this time I look around my study and, feeling a great surge of panic, begin to throw things away. Somehow I have a way of accumulating a lot of things in the little world which extends out six feet from my desk — things which at one time had great meaning but now are merely junk…