April 2018 Happiness, Contentment & Joy These conditions are a rare threesome, and we all need them in order to enjoy a truly fulfilling life . . . Physically, we must have, food, shelter and the companionship of others. Emotionally, we need to love—and to be loved by others. Spiritually, we need relationship with God …
March 2018 Family Day What a wonderful idea! To recognize the importance of God’s plan for a man, a woman and their children; and furthermore, extending the ‘family concept’ to neighborhoods, cities, nations—and indeed to the world—The Family of Man. And the family that is the church. I’m writing this on the very day that …
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 …