In my early twenties, I took part in two short-term outreaches within a couple of months of each other. The first outreach was to a remote area of Canada, about 9 hours northwest of where I was living at the time. I am deliberately vague as to the exact location to protect the identities of […]
Fear
LORD, CONSTRAIN WHAT NEEDS TO BE CONSTRAINED
An excerpt from “Not Always All Together” by Katherine Walden, available on Amazon “We have a choice. We can carry the world on our shoulders, or we can say, ‘I give up Lord; here’s my life. I give you my world, the whole world.’” ~ Bruce Larson, “Believe and Belong” My deadliest foe is the […]
Peter, Sit Down! You’re Rocking the Boat!
“Sit down! You’re Rocking The Boat,” – Guys and Dolls. Matthew 14:22-32 – Jesus walks on water — and Peter abandons the ship. It was a dark and stormy night. No, wait! It REALLY was a dark and stormy night as the disciples huddled together in a tiny boat on the Sea of Galilee. Waves […]
Are There Zombies Sitting in the Pews?
“The old man is dead, long live the new creature.” Nancy Henigbaum (Honeytree) It’s easy to confuse fleeting thoughts and the emotional pull of temptation as sin. God rejoices when we turn and walk the other way from temptation, and He hopes we join Him in that celebration. After all, we just experienced a major […]
Looking For Reflections of Yourself?
As a child, I loved to sit on my mother’s three-mirror vanity desk and carefully arrange the mirrors so I could see countless images of myself. I entertained myself for hours by singing or making up stories to the audience in the mirrors. There was no ego involved; I created an unending supply of imaginary […]
Even in Uncertain Times, We Must Keep Moving
If I have learned anything in 2020, it is the following. Some of my education has taken place in remedial classes, reviewing material that I apparently knew at one point but had to brush up on: God is good, and His intentions are to bless me and others. He did not cause the events of […]