One of the questions we were asked was this: “What would you change in your life together if you had the opportunity?” This week my wife and I celebrated our forty-seventh anniversary as husband and wife. That is not as long as some but a whole lot longer than many! They have been wonderfully blessed years, and I thank God for the wife and home He has given me. Because our wedding anniversary is in February, we tend to spend a lot of them in conferences that are dealing with

I have concluded that it is far easier for God’s people to be different than it is for us to make a difference. In fact, it is often far more comfortable and convenient, even satisfying, to retreat into our minds, our homes, our churches, and celebrate our being different than the world, while smugly thinking ourselves to be a little better. Sadly, that is not what the Lord commanded us to do. We are not to live in isolation from the world but in purposeful relation to the