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• “You know, Davie,” he said, “there’s a little old lady comes around here with a black cape and a basket of candy bars, and she’s always after the boys to stop bopping. She’s okay but she never comes through.” I told the four boys it wasn’t I who was coming through but the Holy Spirit. I told them He was trying to reach inside their pride ... “and y...
• I have questioned God sometimes when prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
• Grandpap’s preaching was very unorthodox, and some of his convictions shocked his contemporaries. For instance, when my grandfather was a young preacher, it was considered sinful to wear ribbons and feathers. The elders in some churches carried scissors on cords at their side. If a penitent lady came forward to the altar wearing a ribbon in her hat...
• “You’ve got to preach Pentecost,” said my grandfather when he was talking to Dad later about the service-of-the-muddy-boot. “When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That’s what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost. “And,” continued Grandpap, pounding the back of his fist into...
• “Something has happened,” he said. His voice was so low I could hardly hear. Dr. Brown picked up his instruments with fingers that trembled, and tested Dad’s blood pressure. “Kenneth,” he said, raising Dad’s eyelids and then feeling his abdomen and then reading his blood pressure again. “Kenneth, how do you feel?” “Like strength is flowing into me....