Handcuffed

This probably won’t entertain you as much as it did me, but I figured I’d share anyways, just so you know at little about my fellow employees.
This summer I’m working at a Military Surplus store whose owner runs two other stores in the area. Since it’s all the same company, a lot of the employees [...]

2007 in Review: Finding Grace With Law(n) Gospel

“The law says, Do, and life you’ll win;
But grace says, Live, for all is done;
The former cannot ease my grief,
The latter yields me full relief.”
The law excludes not boasting vain,
But rather feeds it to my bane;
But gospel grace allows no boasts,
Save in the King, the Lord of Hosts.“

 
There are many things [...]

The Green, Green Grass of (Your) Home

I kinda feel bad because I’ve ignored the “Lawn” in Lawn Gospel for a couple of months. While doing landscaping this summer, lawn’s were my constant companion, and my source of income - so I came to grow quite fond of them. To remind y’all of my ‘roots’, here are two videos that have green [...]

Storming the Gates for Life! Seeking Kingdom Justice in a Fallen World.

After a hearing a great sermon tonight on the difference between “social justice” and “Kingdom justice” from Zechariah 7:8-10, I wanted to share a pro-life devotional by Frank Pavone. Keep in mind the call from Zechariah to render “true judgments” and “not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor” — all of [...]

Amish, Aggies, and A Wee Little Bit Of Fun

So get this. I’m sitting outside of a coffee shop in Louisville, Kentucky called Java Hut, with my feet propped up on a chair writing this blog post. It’s about 5pm our time, and I don’t know what the temperature is, but it couldn’t be more than upper 70’s. And let me just say, IT [...]

Happy Labor Day from Lawn Gospel

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”—1 Corinthians 15:58
“If we derive our motives for Christian labor or steadfastness from the things which we see, our spirit will oscillate from ardor into coldness, [...]

Silence Isn’t Golden…It’s Deadly: Part 2 of Pro-Life in Proverbs

“Whoever is slack in his work
is a brother to him who destroys.” - Proverbs 18:9

The other day, my boss shared with us this scripture: “Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.” He applied it to our landscaping company and teamwork. But as I meditated on it, the Lord [...]

Putting The Cart Before The Horsepower

I guess if this doesn’t work…

…then you could always try what Sarah Pike’s brother did…

Nuuanu Baptist Tree Cutting

Today, a reminder of Isaiah 40:8 - “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever”….and its true, even for gigantic pine trees.
Below is a clip of the Nuuanu Baptist Tree Cutting. It starts out kinda slow…but it really is worth watching.

Intoducing…Lawn Gospel! Hello World!

Welcome to Lawn Gospel!
You’ve found the personal blog of W.Hank Balch. I’ll be talking about a plethora of issues here, so its not going to be very consistent in terms of content, but then again, neither am I. I’m going to try to speak from the heart, shoot from the hip, and give God the [...]