February 2018 The Life of Faith Most believers seem to think that what is meant to really, really live by faith, one must forego a regular means of income and trust that God will put food on the table. Baloney. (Salary or not—that’s just a small part of the life of faith.) All true …
January 2018 Double-Dipping Double-dipping is generally considered to be unethical—if not outright illegal. It can be the act of receiving compensation from two departments of the same employer. Way back in my younger days, I double-dipped. But I wasn’t doing anything illegal. One Sunday night when I was 12, a preacher scared the hell out …
Christmas 2017 The Christmas Paradox I’ll never forget that Christmas. During the lecture phase of our first YWAM school, our family of six had lived in a smelly old olive-drab army tent for three months, high up on the side of a mountain in Kona, Hawaii. For our local outreach we moved into a more …
November 2017 Some Reflections on The Ministry of Women Some simple thoughts from a fairly uncomplicated— and hopefully unprejudiced—man-mind . . . Of my family of six, my Mother and my sister Ruth, were the closest ones to my heart. My Dad, my brothers and I, showed little or no warmth or affection toward one …
October 2017 Once Was a Stripper Finding Your Place In my early search for significance, while meandering along in my hunt for happiness, I trudged along a few false trails. I wish I’d had some good instruction back when I was a teenager; it might have helped me find my way—teaching from Romans 12:1-8, for …
September 2017 What’s Your ‘Use-By’ Date . . . and other reasons not to do something worthwhile and fruitful when you reach a certain ‘lofty’ age: Are you ‘Best-Before’ age 65? Is your Expiration Date clearly stamped somewhere on your body? What is your Shelf-Life? (That’s the day you get taken down and thrown in …
August 2017 Shack’nTrump The times, they are a-changin’ Bob Dylan This is neither a spiritual analysis, nor a political statement; it’s merely a ‘pondering’ I’m having about the book (and movie) entitled ‘The Shack’; and the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States of America. The book, with sales of …
July 2017 ‘Struth Today, this is a little-used word—it’s short for ‘God’s Truth.’ Sadly it is employed in some cultures as a blasphemous oath. But what is God’s truth—in the pure sense—as you and I as believers would, and should, understand it to be? A star football player in England was recently arrested for DUI …
June 2017 Humble Barney Part 2: Edged Out? The rest of the story follows, but first let’s take a look back to the start of Barney’s tale . . . [Click here for Part 1] Barney, along with Paul the apostle, were good missionary-mates all through their dangerous and successful first outreach to Cyprus and …
April/May 2017 Humble Barney A True Story in 2 Parts From our survey of admirable, successful and model-able Bible characters in the February eTouch (click here to read that one), I mentioned that my two choices were Ruth (loyalty, faithfulness and more), and the bi-cultural Joseph of Cyprus, better known as Barnabas. For the purpose …