Life In General

Hey, people do read... and comment. Well, at least three of you.

Ok, enough of my more than slightly odd sense of humor for the day. (Thanks to Rob Jordon for the pic.) We are home from Michigan as of 9:00 last night. After that I'm home for a month, then I'm back to Michigan for another friends wedding. Home for a month, and then we're off to Colorado for our Village Missions conference! A month after that, we are going to a conference in Chicago with Village Missions and Awana. (Which is right after a likely trip to Nebraska for the wedding of another friend.)

Wow. I'm out of breath from just typing this... Ok, not really.

We have finished Judges here in Kansas. Off to the wonderful book of Titus, and then after that we'll do a series through Hebrews 11's "Hall of Faith". We're continuing to work on our doctrine study on Sunday nights, and after that... I'm not sure. I have a couple of ideas that I'm thinking about doing, but I'm unsure as to what we will do.

Thank you to all of our friends and family who are supporting us as we work in rural (very rural) Kansas. We love it here and are excited to see what God is doing. Look for a prayer letter coming to a mailbox near you soon!

God bless,

Parson Larson (this name is even engraved on a pocketwatch now. Thanks, Phil and Jen. Congrats!)

So, um is anybody there???

You know, I think I'd post a little more often if I would get some comments. *hint-hint*

This Sunday marks the end of our series through the book of Judges. Hmm, now what next? 2nd Hezekiah? 1st Opinions? Hmm, oh the options. :-)

It's amazing as I study these last three chapters how the people responded to sin. It seems that they didn't even realize it was a sin. However, it hadn't been that long since Moses had been given the Law, so they should have known. Unfortunately, the parents weren't doing a very good job at teaching their children about the wonders of God.

How about us? For the parents that are reading this, are we teaching our children about who God is and what He has done? All it takes is the failure of one generation to cause the fall of a nation. If you read Judges, notice how quickly they fell. They enter the Promised Land with Joshua and things are going well. He dies, his assistants die, and the nation falls into idolatry. It's too easy to try to rely on another person to teach our children, but how can we be loving parents if we are not teaching them what is eternally important. Instead, we focus on the temporary and make idols out of it.

Our society reminds me of the last part of the final verse in Judges. "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit." Everyone did as he saw fit. No regard for what was right. How we feel right now does not make something right or wrong.

We can't let this happen to us today.

-Parson Larson