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...
Feb 12, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
MAN DIMINISHED BY HIS OWN CREATION Maxie Dunnam What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visiteth him? For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor. Thou makest him to have dominion over...
Feb 5, 2024 | Pondering and Kindling
I heard it often in Mississippi in the early sixties, Politics and religion don’t mix. I was a Methodist Minister and the civil rights issue was raging. You couldn’t be a serious Christian, or a faithful church-goer, without having to deal with the claim, politics...
