I have a couple of close friends with whom I talk almost daily. Most operate on the pattern; if I don’t call her, she calls me. We see each other at least once a week. We know each others’ voices. To quote Seinfeld, we’ve reached, “Hi, it’s me!” status. I know when I hear any [...]
Here is something that is dangerous to think about:
My mother used to tell me that people are mirrors.
What she meant is that the way people behave towards you has a lot to do with how you treat them. She could have said that, “People demonstrate the golden rule in reverse”, but it would not have [...]
Do you know what those are? Cyathus striatus, also known as “Splash Cups.” They are mushrooms. At ¼- 5/8″ high and wide, they are the largest mushrooms in a group called birds’ nests fungi. My husband, Jeff, and I saw some on our vacation last week. I squealed with delight when we found them. We’re [...]
Ed talked about contentment this week in his sermon about David. What does that mean? Paul says in Philippians 4:11-12 that he knows how to be content in every situation. This is coming from a man who’s been thrown in jail more than once for talking about Jesus, beaten and left for dead, and slandered [...]
I keep coming back to the same thing: “I don’t want to be a burden on my family”. This statement disturbs me not because it is something I fear, but because it reflects an unconscious buy-in to a culture that I think we need to address. As Christians we are not really called to use [...]
There’s a shift among Jesus-followers today. We’re beginning to focus more on the “journey” of faith. There is less talk about a moment of being “saved” and more discussion of development and transitions. This is especially true at Evergreen. But is this a new idea? Are we losing an important part of Christianity by thinking [...]
Love is a decision. I write this with a new perspective. Someone brought up the fact that making love a decision may not be romantic or sound like it is from the heart, but to me it is in the choosing where most of our meaningful experiences begin.
Furthermore, I don’t see love as a feeling [...]
I grew up in church, and by the time I was in high school I knew the “Gospel” message well. We’re sinful people, and Jesus died for our sins, so if you ask Jesus to live in your heart, you’ll get to be in Heaven with God when you die. Or some of us church-kids [...]
In 1988 Lou Holtz was a third year football coach at the University of Notre Dame. His team was 11-0 and ranked #1 going into the last game of the season against #2 ranked Southern Cal. If they win this game they go to play in the national championship game against West Virginia. Lou had [...]
