Perspective Silence The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. — Habakkuk 2:20 Read more Distraction “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” — Winston Churchill Read more Spirit-Filled Joy Generates Revival Since “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace ...” (Gal. 5:22), joy is both an indicator and a vindicator of genuine revival and reformation. Read more Ten Free Ways to Appreciate Your Pastor ... Without Making It Awkward Next month is the 20th annual Pastor Appreciation Month. Lists, like this one, show up this time of year to guilt generous parishioners into forking over vacations, cars and new wardrobes to their pastors in order to affirm their calling. Read more Ditches On an idyllic late spring afternoon, a friend and I cruised a curving country road in his convertible. These were the halcyon days of fuel prices, so the throaty throb of the big V-8 gulping gallons of gas dampened our enthusiasm not one iota. Col... Read more I'm Offended, Part 1 My wife recently gave birth to our third child, and one of the many questions we have as we watch her grow is what her personality will be like. Both our eldest and our newly crowned middle child are distinct in approaches to life — yet there is o... Read more Spiritual AIDS “Pastor!” It was Sonja. She had a homosexual twin brother who had contracted AIDS in the bowels of San Francisco. Life was fading fast, and Jim wanted to come home to his churchgoing sister’s family so he could die in peace. Sonja wondered if I wo... Read more Why Children Leave the Church, Part 2 Why do children grow up Seventh-day Adventists and then leave the church? Last month we talked about how parents shouldn’t automatically blame themselves if they lose their kids to the world, basically because everybody gets to choose God for them... Read more Partial We are all partial. Read more Opinion "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion" Proverbs 18:2 (ESV). Read more Bread Bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Isaiah 33:16 Read more God's Measurement of Success When I graduated from high school, I already had two years of college classes under my belt. Having participated in Washington State’s Running Start program, all of my prerequisites were finished, and I was ready to move to Walla Walla and conquer... Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Current page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Silence The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. — Habakkuk 2:20 Read more
Distraction “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” — Winston Churchill Read more
Spirit-Filled Joy Generates Revival Since “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace ...” (Gal. 5:22), joy is both an indicator and a vindicator of genuine revival and reformation. Read more
Ten Free Ways to Appreciate Your Pastor ... Without Making It Awkward Next month is the 20th annual Pastor Appreciation Month. Lists, like this one, show up this time of year to guilt generous parishioners into forking over vacations, cars and new wardrobes to their pastors in order to affirm their calling. Read more
Ditches On an idyllic late spring afternoon, a friend and I cruised a curving country road in his convertible. These were the halcyon days of fuel prices, so the throaty throb of the big V-8 gulping gallons of gas dampened our enthusiasm not one iota. Col... Read more
I'm Offended, Part 1 My wife recently gave birth to our third child, and one of the many questions we have as we watch her grow is what her personality will be like. Both our eldest and our newly crowned middle child are distinct in approaches to life — yet there is o... Read more
Spiritual AIDS “Pastor!” It was Sonja. She had a homosexual twin brother who had contracted AIDS in the bowels of San Francisco. Life was fading fast, and Jim wanted to come home to his churchgoing sister’s family so he could die in peace. Sonja wondered if I wo... Read more
Why Children Leave the Church, Part 2 Why do children grow up Seventh-day Adventists and then leave the church? Last month we talked about how parents shouldn’t automatically blame themselves if they lose their kids to the world, basically because everybody gets to choose God for them... Read more
Opinion "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion" Proverbs 18:2 (ESV). Read more
God's Measurement of Success When I graduated from high school, I already had two years of college classes under my belt. Having participated in Washington State’s Running Start program, all of my prerequisites were finished, and I was ready to move to Walla Walla and conquer... Read more
