by Mark Opseth | Jun 16, 2011 | Gospel, Illustration, Spiritual Life
Bill was a piano technician, a trade he had learned from his father. As I was praying about the message I would deliver at his memorial service, I got to thinking about how pianos are tuned. Bill had been to our home several times to tune our piano. Tuning takes time... 
by Mark Opseth | Jun 28, 2009 | Death, Gospel, Illustration
This weekend the world had to say goodbye to three people: Michael Jackson (June 25, 2009), Farrah Fawcett (June 25, 2009) and Al Hermiston, Stacy Ashley’s father who himself drown while trying to rescue youth from drowning in a local lake (June 28, 2009). Most... 
by Mark Opseth | Jan 31, 2006 | Illustration
After four boys, my wife and I were excited to bring our new daughter home from the hospital. Our six year old, Zachary, watched as we snipped the hospital bracelets off her tiny wrist and ankle. Knowing Zachary was hoping for a boy, I asked him, “What do you... 
by Mark Opseth | Jul 12, 2001 | Illustration, Scripture Memory
I recall this incident when God’s word was a life-saver! We were living in an apartment in Apple Valley (2001). I got on the elevator and it broke down. There I was, in the heat of the summer, stuck in a box with no phone and no air conditioning. After about...