Thoughts, tips, and tutorials for Christian Ministry
Today, February 17th, according to the internet, is “Random Acts of Kindness” Day in the US. Is this a holiday that you celebrate? Did you, perhaps, pay for the lunch of the family behind you at the drive through? Did you give up a prime parking space to someone else, just to make them smile? Read More …
The Gospels contain many examples of people being healed by Jesus. Some come to Jesus on their own, crying out for Jesus to heal them. Some are brought by others before Jesus to be healed. Still more are healed when a loved one brings Jesus to the afflicted one. But, this past week, three other Read More …
Some days I am your child — Skipping beside you, my tiny hand engulfed in your enormous, protective grasp. Prattling on with the insignificant, yet mountainous details of my life. Enjoying the tender safety of your comforting presence. Oh, Abba Father! Some days I am a guilty tax collector — Prostrate Read More …
Losing Weight Spiritually Part 2 — Start Over I know a sweet woman who married very young to a kind man who took care of her in so many ways. He always filled the gas tanks in the car. He mowed the lawn. Anything that needed fixed or replaced around the house was his job– Read More …
I have two good friends who are brothers. When the older of the two brothers turned 18, he exercised his new legal freedom by buying a lottery ticket at the corner store. His younger brother, appalled that his big brother had so quickly turned to gambling asked to see the lottery ticket. His proud older Read More …
It is January, a new year, a clean slate, a fresh start. Many of us look to the promises of a new year to organize our lives, reinforce good habits, and improve our diets. With the beginning of a new year, I also like to look inward at my Christian walk for ways I can Read More …
This painting, by one of my favorite artists (my father-in-law, Fred F. Burnett) subtly highlights some key truths of the biblical Christmas story. Mary’s loving gaze at her child, reveals her amazement and wonder at the miraculous events transpiring. Joseph, head bowed, stands off to the side as if he knows that he is not Read More …
“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” Luke 2:7 I have 3 children, and all of them are born in December. Perhaps having my children during this season of celebrating the birth of Read More …
This past Thursday was the first Thanksgiving holiday that my family and I have ever spent outside the US. But, since our daughter is interning at a Christian home for boys in Honduras and our college son had a few days of break from school, our partial family group traveled to the tropics. The home Read More …
During World War II, while the Nazis were rounding up Jewish people to send to their concentration camps, Corrie ten Boom and her family constructed a tiny hiding place in their home and helped save nearly 800 Jewish people before they were themselves caught. A century before that, here in the US, Christians were involved Read More …