I’ve been preparing for and teaching a class based on Ergun Caner’s “When Worldviews Collide” (Lifeway). He has an interesting overview section on types of apologetics. 1.) Positive apologetics- as practiced by Barnabas (Son of Encouragement)-...
A Maritime Analogy for Responses to Conflict From “Leadership Essentials for Children’s Ministry” (by Craig Jutila). The author gives a simple analogy about responses to conflict. He describes them as follows: 1.) Battleship response- the conqueror; built to fight and...
I have come to see in the Scripture a number of names associated with people in relation to God. Initially, even soon after Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, as these Jewish and Gentile believers in Jesus Christ began the separation from the synagogues of the...
Today a friend in an office I visit regularly was telling me that her grandaughter’s baby died at birth today- a sad event for their family. It was her grandaughter’s first child. Another couple that I know are sitting by their 7 week old...
Thirty one years ago tonight I was giving birth to my second child, a girl. I can remember much about that night. There is one moment in particular when the doctor shouted, “Get in here stat, the heart rate’s going.” Detached as I was, with...
March 20, 1997…..In a moment of ecstatic praise, I said, “Surely the Lord has created this beautiful world for His glory and my delight!” No sooner had the words formed in my brain than I heard, in my spirit, “Tell others.” I knew it was...
I forwarded the timestamp post below ( See “Time in a Bottle”) to a friend, a pastor, whose intellect I appreciate. And wouldn’t you know it, he immediately replied, “Won’t it happen again in a thousand years?”He’s absolutely...
I had the privilege today to review a new Bible study series entitled SALT-Seven Areas of Life Trainings, A Comprehensive Discipleship Series. It’s a rather simple, straight forward, 28 lesson study that most anyone could work through in a day or two, with...
A friend sent me this notice by email this week with the subject line: “not worth the time, but still interesting” On Wednesday of next week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00in the morning, the time and date will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06 That...
We all can identify the spirit of pharisaism among us- those who hold themselves forth as more righteous than others, who separate themselves from the rest of us and flaunt their religiosity before us, often making others feel inferior and unrighteous.But how often...
