Dear Family & Friends, This year I’ve missed my students and their crazy activities.  This Friesen Fortnightly CLASSIC is a good reminder.  It was originally sent on Sept. 29, 2007 The second day of classes I walked onto campus and the sidewalks were filled with chalk writing. I saw “quails, manna, manna, manna.” and realized [...]

Dear Family & Friends, This is a Friesen Fortnightly Classic which was first published Dec. 31, 2006.  It seemed appropriate to remember my first mom while I’m enjoying life with my second mom in Saginaw, MI. I shared a Christmas memory at Multnomah’s 2006 Birthday Celebration for Jesus.  My 1990 Christmas was spent in Detroit’s [...]

Family & Friends, During Sunday’s Super Bowl game I remembered that the couch I was sitting on was purchased for the last super bowl.  This CLASSIC from Jan 31, 2009 remembers the purchase of this beauty. The men of Aslan’s How recently informed me that it was God’s will for us to get a new [...]

Family & Friends, This CLASSIC Friesen Fortnightly was first sent March 1, 2004.  It is a good reminder that we are about to announce the Lonie Scholarship for this semester. I recently sent out the story of my sister, Lonie, to all Multnomah college students.  It begins, “She immediately struck you as a joyful person.  [...]

Family & Friends, This CLASSIC fortnightly was sent almost five years ago to the day (Dec. 18, 2004).  It was a good reminder at advent about God’s heart. Recently, I was discussing faithfulness with one of the men of our house, Aslan’s How.   As we talked, a dramatic moment in my life was recalled and [...]

Dear Family & Friends, On Friday eight of us tried to make the biggest shopping day into the biggest praise day of the year by reading the whole book of Psalms in five hours.  This CLASSIC from July 2, 2004 describes the first time we did the Psalms as a Bible Marathon. Last Saturday nine [...]

Dear Family & Friends, Last week I had the joy of speaking in our Multnomah chapel.  Five years ago on Nov. 14, 2004 I also had the same opportunity.  This CLASSIC update from 11/4/2004 describes this earlier chapel message. I had the privilege of speaking in Multnomah’s chapel on Friday. I confessed–I think I understand [...]

Dear Family & Friends, Recently in our men’s accountability group we discussed “legalism”.  This CLASSIC from Dec. 11, 2004 is a good introduction to the subject. Whenever you want to stop someone short, just claim that what they are doing is “Legalism”.  In our  accountability group recently, we concluded that legalism looks only at outward [...]

Dear Family & Friends, Recently I started watching some of my favorite documentaries and we had a 10 hr Bible marathon yesterday.  This Classic fortnightly from Nov. 12, 2004 remembers the documentary “Super Size Me” with some pain and an earlier marathon with joy. Nov 12, 2004 During a recent dinner discussion at Aslan’s How, [...]

Dear Family & Friends, I’m preaching at Imago Dei on Sunday.  So this fortnightly from Oct. 15, 2004 when I moved to this church seemed an appropriate look back. God loves the local church and so do I.  So, It is a traumatic thing for me when I change churches.  After much prayer, I’ve decided [...]