Apr 3, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
Years ago I came across a phrase that grabbed my attention. It was a season of my life when I was paying close attention to my own “spiritual state,” and as a result, seeking to develop particular spiritual disciplines. The phrase, a long obedience in the same...
Mar 27, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
There is no if about death. The question is more accurately put, “When a person dies, shall he or she live again?” Not one line of the New Testament was written… not one sentence was penned apart from the conviction that He of whom these things were being written had...
Mar 19, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
The preaching must have been powerful. In a recent cartoon, as he leads his parents from worship, Dennis the Menace confronts the preacher. “What happens when everyone stops sinning? What will you do?” While we are not strangers to sin, Dennis stuns us with his ...
Mar 12, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
I recently heard this story of a boy who desperately wanted a car for his sixteenth birthday. He didn’t hesitate in making that desire known. When that day finally arrived, he looked out the window, hopefully thinking that surely his new car would be there. But to his...
Mar 5, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
HEALING PRAYER IS GOD’S IDEA I love people! I get excited as I look forward to meeting new people. I am encouraged in my own Christian walk in mentoring young ministers. A few years ago I received an email from a young Canadian minister, asking me to...
Feb 27, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
GOD IN OUR LIVES Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him.(Ps. 37:7 RSV) A little boy was afraid to go to his room alone. He was assured by his mother that God was there, even though it was dark. He went to the door, peeked in, and said, “God, if...
