Okay, friends, this is big. Huge, to be exact! This afternoon – October 1 – I took the big step of moving from being exclusively a non-fiction writer to the exciting world of storytelling. Continue reading Hey, Internet – I just published my first novel!
Fasten (rivet, paste) your attention on what is cute, and adorable, and engaging, and delightful, and redemptive, and pleasing, and admirable. Invest your mind and your spirit in things that are exemplary, ideas and images that simply make people smile. Continue reading an invitation to help fix the Internet
I’m not saying I believe the future is necessarily going to be any kind of easy. But I do believe in the one who holds the future, and I believe that my grandson David’s generation have so much enthusiasm, and brilliance, and love to give. Continue reading first day of school – hope and promise
during times of persecution Chinese Christians referred to themselves as, “This I know people.” Continue reading the “This I Know” people share light, and set a table for love…
Today’s second post goes back to this blog’s ongoing commitment to discipleship: “Go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I’ve commanded you. Look, I myself will be with you every day until the end.” – Matthew 28 More About Ministry Exploration at WFPC: Sunday … Continue reading evangelism as a 30-second elevator speech
As a living testimony, we are certainly more grace than works. But that’s okay, because we want our lives to tell the good news story honestly. Continue reading “More Max than Michelangelo” – immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine
I am convicted that I have to live forward from this day as a passionate, enthusiastic, hard-working, visionary follower of Jesus. Continue reading meet my 1972 self (blessed but commensurately responsible)
Everything I learn about this amazing world, and the unfathomable universe, gives me a larger and more spectacular appreciation for the Creator. Continue reading the more I learn, the more I believe
Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. – Colossians 3:12-14 Sixty-five years ago today, … Continue reading celebrating 65 years of faith and commitment!
The church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ, her Lord; she is his new creation by water and the Word. From heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died. GOD IS UP TO SOMETHING! I want to anchor my thoughts this morning in a comment Rebekah made at yesterday’s meeting of … Continue reading God is up to something!
