Preface……………………………………………………………………………………..ix
BIBLE STORIES
Daniel and the Forgotten Prince……………………………………………….1
Fiction about a Bible character
Daniel and the Village Elders……………………………………………………7
Adding more to the Daniel stories
The God Talk Club: She Bears………………………………………………. 12
How do you explain the she bears and Elisha?
CHRISTMAS
You Will Have a Son……………………………………………………………….19
A modern Mary story
About Those Small Town Values…………………………………………… 22
Family Christmas in a small town
CHURCH MINISTRY/OUTREACH
I Have No Gifts………………………………………………………………………31
Finding a place to serve
The Missionary’s House…………………………………………………………. 42
Building relationships
The Organ and the Tramp………………………………………………………46
Church priorities
Our Pastor is Lazy…………………………………………………………………..50
Who shall we serve?
Testimony of Sunday Lunch………………………………………………….. 58
What is our REAL witness?
The God Talk Club is Born…………………………………………………….62
How the small group began
ETHICS
Civilian Targets………………………………………………………………………. 73
War, people, and ethics
Finding the Rich Man’s Treasure……………………………………………. 80
The worth of a treasure
A Righteous Disobedience…………………………………………………….. 83
When is it permissible to disobey?
The God Talk Club: I Want my SUV………………………………………86
Money and other sins
Dying for a Bad Man……………………………………………………………… 92
Relationship with God
The Juror’s Oath……………………………………………………………………..97
Is there a time to place you judgment over that of figures in authority?
The Magic Sword…………………………………………………………………. 101
Where’s the magic?
FAITH
The Last Sandwich………………………………………………………………..109
Do I REALLY believe in God’s provision
Hell Fire and Damnation……………………………………………………… 111
What is heaven?
The Voice and the Green House…………………………………………..116
Do you hear God speak?
Comforted…………………………………………………………………………….122
Grief
The God Talk Club: Tornadoes…………………………………………….125
When God smites . . . or not!
The God Talk Club: Justine and the Prophets……………………… 133
When someone claims to speak for God
Easter Morning Resurrection………………………………………………..140
Faith (a medical story)