Coincidence has been defined as: A remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
For fun, he and Pat love fishing, playing golf and traveling..
For the past 17 years he has served as teaching pastor under his sons David and Jonathan at the Carillon location of Community Christian Church in Naperville, Illinois. mentored young pastors and taught a few graduate level classes.
Since then he has.
Earl served as pastor of the Farber Christian Church in Farber, Missouri and was the founding pastor of the Deer Creek Christian Church, University Park, Illinois where he served for over thirty-seven years.
Earl holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Central Christian College, Moberly, Missouri, a Master of Arts in Human Relations Services and Counseling from Governor\'s State University, University Park, Illinois and a Doctorate in Ministry from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois.
He has been blessed with three children and six grandchildren.
Here he met and married a farm girl, Pat Robison, to whom he has been very happily married for sixty-two years.
Earl was born and reared in the wonderful little town of Vandalia, Missouri.
These coincidences are His call for us to see Him and trust Him.
I submit that our lives are full of coincidences or circumstantial evidence that God is and that He is at work in and around us.
Of course, it takes a lot of it.
A good trial lawyer will say that you can build an airtight case on circumstantial evidence.
An alternate possibility: I compare coincidences to what lawyer\'s call circumstantial evidence.
The problem is that too many of us never see these encounters with God as anything more than just wonderful little coincidences.
In the Bible we read that ...in Him (God) we live and move and have our being-Acts 17:28 NIV.
Do these miracles happen to everyone? I thinks so.
It is only after looking back on my life that I could see what I once thought were a lot of really just neat coincidences were actually encounters with God or small miracles.
But enough of them and we start to think: something or someone is involved here.
Coincidence has been defined as: A remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection
