This is a post from Fay Rowe’s, daughter, Gillian Fritzsche. The other day, I was driving in the mid-afternoon to pick up my children from school. I turned a corner and started driving down a small hill. As I drove, I saw a mama pushing a stroller up the hill on the side walk. Her … More He Delights In You
[Written by Fay Rowe in 2001; published by Gillian Fritzsche] Publisher’s note: this is the tribute that my mother, Fay Rowe, wrote for her father when he passed into glory in 2001. As I was searching through my files recently, I came across it. It comforts me to know her own thoughts of when the … More Unswervingly and Joyfully Convinced
[Published by Gillian Fritzsche] It was Easter Sunday morning, April 4th, 2021. Fay Rowe had just posted on her personal Facebook page, “It’s Resurrection Sunday, when we celebrate that the crucified Christ rose again for our justification. Alleluia!” Minutes later, she arose with her husband to get ready to attend church, in person. She showered, … More April 4th, 2021
Yesterday, I found myself overwhelmed, looking at so many things in this world and in my own life that I am sure need fixing but appear pretty much beyond help. I think I know from whence came my extreme funk: Our present “Pandemic” circumstance—having been “shutdown” over and over through the past year, separated from … More A Reader’s Reflection
Sometimes I feel like living today presents more challenges than at any other time in history, but even a cursory look through history tells me that is simply not the case. There has always been disease, poverty, violence, greed, unfaithfulness, ignorance, selfishness and perversion of what is good. I need not go on, right? The … More The Blessing of Living by Faith
Have you ever needed a favour from someone and wished you had done more for that person so that now you would be in a better position to ask? Have you ever asked for favour from God and wished the same thing? The Old Testament indicates that the favour of God is earned somehow. In … More Favour
We’ve been scared before. I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1961. I was a little girl, and didn’t really know much about what was happening, but I had heard enough and had watched enough war movies to be terrified when I heard a plane flying overhead. Like the adults around me, I was relieved … More Fear Not… But
Friends, today I am excited to share this guest post from my daughter, Gillian Fritzsche, who lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. A few weeks ago my pastor gave a talk about deliverance and how a change in our habits plays a part in that. You can find the message here (look for … More Breakthrough by Changed Habits
I wonder what Mary was thinking, lying there in a stall for animals, about to give birth. The birthing story we have imagined might not be perfectly accurate, but this westerner has always envisioned it thus: No helping women around, no doula, no midwife. Just Joseph. And the smell of fresh hay mixed with the … More “How did I get here?”
Does it feel both odd and appropriate that we should be reading this chapter on Christmas Eve? Odd, perhaps, in the midst of our preparations for the celebration of Jesus’ birthday, but wonderful that, at the same time, we can rejoice in his victory over death. After this journey we have been on with Jesus … More Luke 24: A New Chapter
We are at the beginning of the end of Jesus ministry on earth. It is the turning point of history and of the relationship between God and Man, and a fulfillment, of sorts, of Simeon’s prayer of praise in the temple so long ago. There is so much here—what makes for greatness, the foretelling of … More Luke 22: The Beginning
Jesus was teaching in the temple again that day, and preaching the gospel. The chief priests, scribes and elders came up to him, questioning him about who gave him the authority to “do these things.” It’s not clear if “these things” meant, simply, teaching the people who listened with rapt attention, or if it included … More Luke 20: The Debates
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