Spiritual Stories

August 31, 2015 The Last Call These stories are the spiritual experiences that have occurred in my life.  When I began listing the topics, the number of experiences was much greater than I expected. I spent my working career as an engineering technician performing design and test work on large

August 31, 2015 Preface: I was almost a year old and had not been baptized.  My father had ignored his mother’s plea for a baptism.  My grandmother was an assertive woman undertook an intervention.  This is the story that was told to me by my father’s sisters. My Baptism My baptism

August 31, 2015 Preface: Sometimes I may not have been in Sunday School for all the right reasons, but I was there.  I turned out ok.  This is my story. Sunday School Attendance My younger brother and I attended Sunday School like most kids in our area. We didn’t go

August 31, 2015 Preface: We weren’t your normal catechism class of well-behaved kids. We often lived in that gray area.  This is our story as I remember it. My Catechism Class As our class formed in September, the minister and his wife announced their retirement at the end of the

August 31, 2015 Preface: I was intensely focused on raising my grade point above a 3.0 during the last quarter of technical school at Iowa State University.  Our wedding would be a few days after graduation and Maxine wanted to start going to church on a regular basis.  Worship turned

August 31, 2015 Preface: A simple invitation to attend church nurtured my family for more that 30 years.  This is that story. The Invitation A simple invitation sustained our family for more than 30 years.  In 1974 we moved into our first house in Hudson, Iowa during a very hot 4th

August 31, 2015 Preface: In the summer of 1975 I was sitting on the front porch when two friends came to talk to me about running for political office.  After they left, I sat there I pondered their request, and a recent chain of events, and the Holy Spirit was