01.28.2025 – Comfort and Pain – 6 Comments on What Grief Feels Like What Grief Feels Like I lost my dad five years ago. I’ve been losing my mom to dementia for even longer. Earlier this month, I lost my …
01.21.2025 – Missions – 4 Comments on Meeting Heidi Baker Meeting Heidi Baker For some people, Heidi Baker is controversial. But to me and others, she’s a hero. Along with her husband, Rollan…
01.17.2025 – A broken world Too Busy to Care About Maria? John Hearn shared this story about Maria a number of years ago. I share it with you in hopes that it will con…
01.14.2025 – My Life Life Lessons Dogs Can Teach Us Asha died last week. She was my sidekick for 15 years. She was great with the grandbabies. She probably thought s…
01.07.2025 – Community and Covenant Here’s Why We Need to Be Recognized After Asha’s death and Hunter’s funeral last night, I was thinking about why losing someone you love can be so …
Losing a friend to AIDS A broken world Pastor Gift works in the most AIDS-devastated place in the world – in Nsoko, the worst part of Swaziland. This past week was a hard one for him. He shares wh…
Who will roll away the stone? Dealing with junk in our lives Jesus came to set the captives free. Of course we’re not in prison, so we figure, he came for the people behind bars, right? But the fact is, there are many …
Discovering your destiny (part 2) Reaching Your Destiny Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Though Thoreau was probably not a Christian, he recognized that life was valuab…