(Warning: This is an OUCH, and an encouragement.) As an older woman who has over the years taught and mentored younger women, I want to share some of what I have learned from this experience. Only three of those I mentored were single, but all had an original desire...
The story is told of a young man, who, in the “prime” of his life, woke one morning, but was unable to get out of bed. His legs and arms were like rubber. He could move his head, his hands, his feet, and his body, but his arms and legs seemed to have no bone, and no...
For some reason my mind has been on food these last few days, not just on one item and not just on one meal, and not just for a common occasion. My thoughts have been on a feast, in which I picture this long table that extends out of my sight, with so much food, and...
What good are Birthdays now and then, Except to think what might have been; Unless we know of Whom we’re born; Who brings New Life, each day, each morn. Whose Eyes, to See; Whose Ears, to Hear; Whose Mind, to Understand How we, so small, so lost in time Are part of...
Behind every person is a possibility. As I thought of writing this article three people came to mind; all are young men, each in his twenties. Jerad is dying of brain cancer. Don will soon graduate from college with a degree in History. Darren is married, and needs a...
“Are you clothed with humility?” Andrew Murray leaves us with this question in the third chapter of Humility. To understand what he is asking we must look carefully at this most important chapter in his book. PDF I am led to ask another question, “What does real...
I have heard the message from Matthew 28 on the Great Commission in different places, from different pulpits, from tracts, television, from different pastors, etc.? It is always accompanied with the sense of guilt. The last time I heard it was no different, but my...
LIFE in Christ for Those Who Are Desperate “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 As distorted as life may be; as distant as God may seem to you; as distressful is...
I started this article last month after hearing about a neighbor’s twenty-three year old son who had taken his own life. I pick this up again after hearing the same thing last week from our daughter Lee, of a friend and former neighbor whom she had known since middle...