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Seeing Things: Everyday Encounters With God by Joe Crisp.
A clearly written, humorous, faith centered, and insight filled collection of 52 encounters in life with God…from Fire Ants to Yellow Watermelons and more…
I sent my girls out on a fire ant patrol after the recent heavy rains. They roamed around the yard spotting the mounds while I came along behind, pouring on the poison.
In one flowerbed, the girls discovered an enormous mound. One end was built up so that it towered like a skyscraper over a sprawling metropolis of dirt. Teeming with its insect population, it looked like the New York City of the ant world.
As I sprinkled out the poisonous granules, I felt like a bomber pilot raining death and destruction on the masses below. I hated to do it, but it was either them or us.
It always strikes me as strange that the instructions on the bag of poison say "do not disturb the ants." After all, I am trying to kill them. How can I keep from disturbing them?
Preaching is a lot like killing fire ants. The gospel is poison to our pretensions, death to our self-inflated egos. It challenges our complacency and attacks our idolatries. It calls us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Jesus. As Bonhoeffer put it, when Christ calls someone, he bids him come and die.
Pretty hard to preach that message without disturbing the ants.
The index from the book:
PREFACE 3
SPRING 10
Opening Day 12
Texas Tremor 14
Rain 16J
ob Must Have Been a Camper 18
Mutiny in the Doghouse 20
Help Unwanted 22
The Mustard Bush 24
The Alligator 26
Bluebonnets 28
San Francisco 29
Yellow Watermelons 31
See Who Next Year? 33
Boredom 35
SUMMER 36
Frozen Pickles 38
Smith Spring 40
Shiftless 42
Where Are the Eclipse? 44
A Matter of Degrees 46
Old Faithful 48
There's No Place Like the Apartment 50
Stubby's Video Club 52
Weather, You Like It or Not 53
That Was A Great Sermon, Preacher I Didn't Enjoy It a Bit 56
Behold, I Stand at the Phone, Ringing 58
Mansions and Slums 60
Spots 62
FALL 63
It Ain't Over Till It's Over, But It's Over 65
Jones Lake 67
Sunday Countdown 69
Dr. Duchess 71
Wide Left 73
Hot Stove League 75
By the Shores of Lake Texana 77
Fire Ants 79
The Eagle 80
In the Garden 82
Pancakes 84
The Question Parents Dread Most 86
Note to the North Pole 88
WINTER 89
Visitor 91
Encouragement 93
I Have Finished the Course (finally) 95
I'm Dreaming of a White Anything 97
Impatience 99
A Good Cat 101
The Sunday Dinosaur 103
Pumpkin Peace 105
Memphis Blues 107
Fifteen Minutes of Fame 109
Growing Pains 110
Reclaiming Christmas 112
Getting a Handle on the Messiah 114
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1203 Plantation
Victoria, TX 77904
All Rights Reserved Copyright 1995 by Joe Crisp
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"3/4" cup milk
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1/3 cup sugar
"1/2" Tsp vanilla
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