The day after the Hurricane Michael that hit 10/10/18 Bill said,”well, we can cross surviving a CAT 5 hurricane off our bucket list.” Me: “What bucket list? I didn’t know we had a list.” Reports have said Michel’s winds were 2mph below CAT 5 rating. I’ve discovered...
“……more than 84% of scientific studies show that faith is a positive factor in addiction prevention or recovery and a risk in less than 2% of the studies reviewed, we conclude that the value of faith-oriented approaches to substance abuse prevention...
I was listening to Mark Pollock on TED talk (he is blind and paralyzed), talking about realism and hope. He shared the story of POWs in Vietnam, relating that it was the realists who were able to persevere and who eventually came home. The optimists kept setting...
One of the issues we revisit regularly in recovery and discipling is the matter of suffering- why it is present, how we face it, consecrating it to God for His redemptive work through it, etc. Recently, I was struck with the fact that, in the New Jerusalem, the...
God is the Boundary Originator and the Final Boundary…. the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega…. Adam and Eve had freedom within a broad range of options with minimal restrictions…God IS the Original Boundary-and- Boundary-Setter and...
