One of my favorite bloggers … Heather Kopp … shared this the other day. I loved it:“It is but lost labour that we haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of anxiety. For those beloved of God are given gifts even while they sleep.”Worry wart that I am, IContinueContinue reading “God gives us gifts, even while we sleep…”
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It”s okay to make a mistake…
One of my favorite guys is Jeremy Statton. He’s an orthopedic surgeon with 6 children, two of whom he and his wife recently adopted from China. And now they are thinking and praying about adopting two more children from Ethiopia. He’s one of the brothers in Christ that I pray for regularly… Here he is todayContinueContinue reading “It”s okay to make a mistake…”
Do you want to know the answer to conflict?
When a newspaper posed the question, ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: Dear Sirs:I am.Sincerely Yours,G. K. Chesterton.Frankly, that is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.Similarly, the answer to conflict, and we all have it, is the same: ContinueContinue reading “Do you want to know the answer to conflict?”
Real men … do cry.
I grew up out in the high plains near the Colorado border. That’s out where real men don’t cry and everyone is “just fine.” If a little boy did cry, he might hear, “You dry those tears up, buddy, or I’ll give you something to cry about.”So, you didn’t cry! I grew up with well-meaningContinueContinue reading “Real men … do cry.”
What happens after death?
Shot on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia…
Why so few pastors pray
My friend Pastor John Piippo blogs today saying,I estimate that 80% of North American pastors and Christian leaders do not have a significant prayer life. By this I mean that they do not take time to actually pray. By “taking time” I mean more than saying a blessing over dinner, or multi-task “praying.” By “significant” IContinueContinue reading “Why so few pastors pray”
We are either moving toward or away from God
My Iowa State University physics professor friend John Sanford says…Everyday I am confronted with choices which can move me either toward or away from my good God. Why must I continuously be alert to making wise choices? For the same reason that Win and I as a husband and wife must continually reject attitudes/actions whichContinueContinue reading “We are either moving toward or away from God”
As I get increasingly transforfmed, I begin to get it … And it’s not always so pretty
“When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that’s left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.” C.S. LewisAnd we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comesContinueContinue reading “As I get increasingly transforfmed, I begin to get it … And it’s not always so pretty”
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