May 8, 2026 | Pondering and Kindling
If we want to finish well in our ministry, we do well to look to those who have walked before us. In my studies and conversations I have noticed several I wish to elaborate for these articles. First, they practiced discipline, at the heart of which was prayer. Sister...
Apr 30, 2026 | Pondering and Kindling
Christians talk about HEAVEN as the place where they will live for eternity. ETERNAL LIFE is the life that is a gift of God which comes to those who accept Christ as God’s gift of salvation. Paul uses the phrase eternal life to describe the goal of the process of...
Sep 29, 2025 | Pondering and Kindling
Could you believe it…somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 packed in a football stadium for a funeral? I hardly knew the name…Charlie Kirk. And not just the thousands packed in the Phoenix stadium; a TV viewership of tens of millions. The first...
Sep 26, 2025 | Pondering and Kindling
What a time to be alive as a Christian! What’s going on? What a time to be alive as an ordained minister, joyful in the privilege of serving in clergy leadership for over 70 years Though 91, My praying and pondering seems to focus more on the...
Sep 24, 2025 | Pondering and Kindling
On Sept.10, Charlie Kirk was speaking at an outdoor event, discussing mass shootings in the U.S., with an attendee, when a single shot rang out, striking Kirk. I doubt if a day has passed since there was not some media reference to this senseless violence.This murder...
Nov 21, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
I titled my last article WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE, noting the fact that there is a new denomination in the Christian faith world: THE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH. I know this raises questions, “Isn’t this going against the stream?” In a study published in...
