A nearly nine year career as a pharmaceutical sales representative has come to an end. It was one I enjoyed and had sought for a number of years before finally getting a job in it. God allowed me to work at it for these years to “get it out of my system”,...
I’ve outlined and am teaching a class on spiritual temperaments- how we love and experience God- based on Gary Thomas’ book, Sacred Pathways. As an introduction to the class we talked about some of the many personality typology systems that are used to map...
The retreat this weekend had as its theme “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ” (2 Corinthians 4:7) There was much said about the redemptive work of God in using even cracked and...
Once again a month has passed since I’ve posted here. But this time, I haven’t wanted to post. I’ve had some things going on in my life which have had me preoccupied and……I’ll just say it, angry. I’ve been working out the...
I can hardly believe it’s been a month since I posted here. There’s been so much going on, I couldn’t find the time necessary to organize my thoughts for writing. I’m not sure I have them organized even now, but at least I do have a little...
I was listening to a book on tape recently by Cloud and Townsend. In it John Townsend talks about the difference between wishing and hoping. Wishing originates in one’s own desires and is purely a result of one’s own wants or needs. It has no objective...
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...
