Weekend Wrap-Up and Random Thoughts 1. Had an exciting time volunteering on Saturday for the “Play It Forward” festival benefiting Emily’s Power for a Cure, a foundation established in loving memory of 2-yr old Emily Ransom to help find a cure for childhood cancer. 2. Watched the film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time….
Yesterday our wiener dog passed on to doggie heaven. Kujo was a ferocious man-eating pit bull trapped in the body of a “mama’s boy” dachshund and never knew how to get out. Cindy and I got him for our one-year anniversary in 1997. The photo here was taken when he was just a little pup…
Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point.
Interesting CNN article on how American teenagers are embracing “moralistic therapeutic deism.” Translation: a watered-down faith that portrays God as a “divine therapist” whose chief goal is to boost people’s self-esteem. Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of “Almost Christian,” argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing…
“To him who believes all things are possible.” Mark 9:23 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu felt called to ministry as a young girl and went through ministerial training in Ireland and India. When she graduated from her training her heart was “on fire” with a burning passion to serve God and love people. One day she approached…
I love the spirit of victory that emanates from Romans 8:28-37… It implies that we don’t have to settle for merely becoming survivors in the trek of life. With God’s power and goodness at work in our lives, we truly can become “more than conquerors” in every aspect of our lives. Here are some principles…
“Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon ‘greed’.” – Richard Foster Nothing speaks more loudly in a person’s life than generosity. When it comes from the heart, true generosity permeates every area of our lives, overflowing in obvious manifestations of benevolence…
Are you struggling to find margin in your life? Let me rephrase that: Are you struggling to find passion, creativity, and spiritual clarity in your life? In his book Anam Cara, John O’Donohue tells a story about a European explorer in Africa who hired some native Africans to help carry his equipment through the jungle….
The following is an article written by John Piper on The Marks of a Spiritual Leader: I define spiritual leadership as knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to use God’s methods to get them there in reliance on God’s power. The answer to where God wants people to be is…
In Rocky IV, Ivan Drago is the formidable Russian foe. But late in his bout with underdog Rocky Balboa, Drago begins to realize that Rocky has something the human iron curtain himself doesn’t have: Too much heart! As the fight prolongs and Drago becomes increasingly convinced that you just can’t stop Rocky from coming, he…