Life on the Vine

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday...Resurrection Day.  After Christ's resurrection, the apostle Matthew recorded in Chapter 28 that Christ gave "The Great Commission."  He said, starting in verse 18, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."    It is time for another Gospel for Asia blog and this month's topic is literature.  Gospel for Asia publishes more than 30 million pieces of Gospel literature a year.  This literature, which is produced specifically for the cultures and languages of Asia, is distributed by missionaries, Bible college students and believers.  Thousands have chosen to follow Christ after coming face-to-face with the Gospel message in these tracts. Alhad (left), a Gospel for

Palm Sunday in Stuttgart, Germany has been a spectacular day.  A beautiful blue cloudless sky, sunshine and a nice cool breeze.  Except for Friday, when it was overcast and cool, the past week plus has been idyllic springtime weather.  I will miss this kind of springtime weather once I'm settled in southern Arizona.  All around spring is starting to emerge from winter's rest.  The majority of trees are still bare but many are starting to blossom.  Small pea green shoots are beginning to open and new growth is expanding the circumference of trees.  I thought today would be a perfect day to go for a walk with my camera and capture some of spring's beauty.  Now I'm no botanist, arborist or floriculturist so I don't know the names of many of these trees and plants.  If you recognize something though...let me know and I'll change the photo caption.   I think this is a magnolia tree.  One of my favorite neighborhood trees. I love these yellow flowers.