Truth Compendium

We bought our first home, “owner finance”, in 1987; because it was owner financed there was no bank to say we needed to have it inspected, and so we didn’t! We knew it was a fixer-upper, and due to our youthful ignorance, we assumed we were up to the task.  But it didn’t take long to figure out it was also hazardous, in more ways than one. Our first Valentine’s dinner was bittersweet. Sweet because it was our first Valentine’s dinner in our own home, and bitter because as I was walking back toward the kitchen, I heard a whooshing noise under the floor.  The ancient iron bar that protruded through the floor for turning off the water did not turn off the water.  So on Valentine's Day Bruce had to crawl under the house with a flashlight to turn off the water! The old steel pipes had sprung a leak.  But that was not all! Besides the old two pole wiring we saw in the attic, we also discovered that the house had had a serious fire. The original roof, which we...

As a young child I remember being intrigued with the picture of the earth taken from space. I don’t remember the exact year, whether it was the year the astronauts orbited the earth or landed on the moon. What I do remember is the impression I had; if the universe is this big, and earth is this small, then I, being only 5 or 6 years old, must be smaller still. And if that is the case, then God must be really big, and what does He want with a small person like me?? I was a teeny-in-size "truth seeker"! I remember where I stood as I asked my Mom about this. It was in the hallway. I don’t remember exactly what my mother said, but it was something along the lines of “we are here to honor God, and bring Him glory.” My next childhood recollection is of a conversation I had with my sister on the stairs. Once again I don’t remember exactly what she said to me, or what I said in reply, but I do remember running down the stairs to tell my Mom I believed in Jesus. For someone who ...