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This is day four or five, I forget, that we have been moving our bedtime and alarmtime earlier. Thursday at 4am, we leave for Ohare, but that’s not the reason we’ve been experimenting. Rather, it is because we will arrive in Zurich, Lord willing, at 7:35am their time, about 12:00am our time. A few years…

I have been enjoying a podcast by Ben Sasse, entitled Not Dead Yet. You can do background on him–a very inspiring person and gifted man. I love much of what he talks about and fully enjoy his openness. There is one topic that has been bothering me. It is his love for professional football (college…

This is going to be a multi-post topic, the reasons which shall be obvious as we go through this. This past week, I rejoiced to pay off the former owner of a business I bought. Since January, he has used attorney threats against me and turned a deaf ear to my requests to sit down…

Let me pose a hypothetical, though it is hardly that…this happens everyday somewhere. Suppose you are travelling and happen upon a conversation with someone which turns into them admitting that they used to go to church as a child, and no longer do…but after meeting you and seeing the love of Christ flowing through you,…

I’ve been thinking about values, creeds, confessions, statements. Our world is flooded with these types of things. Verbose, many of them. Generalities, most of them. Or, ridiculously specific which might be worse. Let’s try something different. How about we only make distinctions when it is different from mainstream or different from the standard. For example,…

Laying down your life is probably not going to happen in one dramatic moment like Dirk Willems is remembered for. How about in a thousand little moments? Serving others is dying a little bit each time. In that way, it seems to me, we lay down our lives over a thousand little moments. Check out…

What would be more impactful than what I’m doing right now? This is an interesting question, similar to the “you can’t hear the dogs that don’t bark.” If we are about the Father’s business all the time, this thought may not occur to us often. When we say “Yes” to the adventure of our lives,…

I was recently confided in by a friend that he wonders if he can ‘feel’ the Holy Spirit. He asked if I had ever experienced Him. I shared that I had, indeed, experienced the Holy Spirit and gave some examples of ebenezers, life experiences, and divine interventions. My friend is on a faith journey, and…

Three months is a long time. I’ve not had the energy to write even though my list of topics has continued to snowball. I want to get back in the saddle and write. What caused my energy draw? Mostly, a difficult legal dispute with someone I thought was my friend. I dealt with feelings of…

Can you be preserving if you aren’t sharing? Can you be sharing if you aren’t preserving? I’ve heard it said that preserving sound doctrine and sharing the gospel are two roles of the Church. It is implied that some people are ‘good at’ one of these, some are ‘good at’ the other, and that’s why…