Perspective If I ask for forgiveness, am I forgiven? If I ask for forgiveness, am I forgiven?I believe the devil uses two tools to trip us in the journey of forgiveness: failure and guilt. If he can either make us believe that God can't forgive our mistakes or continue to bring our failures to mind ... Read more Can You Spare Any Change? Change is all around us this time of year. Bulbs are sprouting, politicians are spouting, and I've added a few more gray hairs to my thinning thatch. I do not always welcome change. Moving from a comfortable chair by the fire is not my first choic... Read more Do you always practice what you preach? The thing I love about teenagers is you get right to the point. You leave no wiggle room to hedge or fudge!So here's my answer: "No, absolutely not." You see, I preach "Be kind to one another," and yet I get frustrated with my wonderful children a... Read more Cultured or Curdled? I suppose you could chalk it up to collegiate shenanigans. Three boys in a room, barely past the teen years, with an inordinate amount of time on their hands, don't always add up to maturity.One of our threesome got up early each morning for work.... Read more Strangers, Angels and Us There was a time when I didn't identify much with strangers. Along with the ever-present caution, "don't talk to strangers," I was born and raised in the same home and community for the first 20 years of my life. I went to the same school as my tw... Read more What would you do, that you can't do, because you are a pastor? Question: What would you do that you can't do because you are a pastor?What would you do that you can't do because you are a pastor?Let me take the liberty of broadening that a bit: Is there something I would want to do but I can't do because I am... Read more Piece of Mind At times I wonder if it's all I have left "up there"—a piece of mind, that is. Solomon had me in his corner when he apologized "we do not know how to go out or come in. "Well, that's not it exactly…it's just, I can't remember why I was going out. ... Read more "Does God Like Me?" If you have a question for P. J. you may e-mail him at the address below and he will give it his best shot. First of all, before we get to the question—let me say what a privilege and humble honor to be back in partnership with the GLEANER and have the opportunity to connect with youth from around the Northwest."Does God like me?" You know this is a que... Read more A Nose-Worthy Issue When the first note came, we chuckled. One of our loyal readers complained that her issue of the GLEANER smelled so bad she could hardly stand it. An isolated incident, we thought. At times we have struggled with poor spelling, but never bad smell... Read more Christmas in July Her eyes were riveted to the clock as she waited, timecard in hand, to end her shift. She would escape the torment of this dysfunctional torture chamber called work and roam the mall free for a hour or so of shopping before she had to pick up her ... Read more Connecting and Reflecting at Rosario Beach Envision sitting on a beach around an orange and red, crackling campfire on a Sabbath evening. Grandmothers, parents and children are bundled against the cool twilight air. Kids dip their hands into frigid buckets of water to play with the crabs a... Read more The Test of a True Christian A Pharisee once asked Jesus, “Which is the great commandment in the law?" Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Current page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Next page Next › Last page Last »
If I ask for forgiveness, am I forgiven? If I ask for forgiveness, am I forgiven?I believe the devil uses two tools to trip us in the journey of forgiveness: failure and guilt. If he can either make us believe that God can't forgive our mistakes or continue to bring our failures to mind ... Read more
Can You Spare Any Change? Change is all around us this time of year. Bulbs are sprouting, politicians are spouting, and I've added a few more gray hairs to my thinning thatch. I do not always welcome change. Moving from a comfortable chair by the fire is not my first choic... Read more
Do you always practice what you preach? The thing I love about teenagers is you get right to the point. You leave no wiggle room to hedge or fudge!So here's my answer: "No, absolutely not." You see, I preach "Be kind to one another," and yet I get frustrated with my wonderful children a... Read more
Cultured or Curdled? I suppose you could chalk it up to collegiate shenanigans. Three boys in a room, barely past the teen years, with an inordinate amount of time on their hands, don't always add up to maturity.One of our threesome got up early each morning for work.... Read more
Strangers, Angels and Us There was a time when I didn't identify much with strangers. Along with the ever-present caution, "don't talk to strangers," I was born and raised in the same home and community for the first 20 years of my life. I went to the same school as my tw... Read more
What would you do, that you can't do, because you are a pastor? Question: What would you do that you can't do because you are a pastor?What would you do that you can't do because you are a pastor?Let me take the liberty of broadening that a bit: Is there something I would want to do but I can't do because I am... Read more
Piece of Mind At times I wonder if it's all I have left "up there"—a piece of mind, that is. Solomon had me in his corner when he apologized "we do not know how to go out or come in. "Well, that's not it exactly…it's just, I can't remember why I was going out. ... Read more
"Does God Like Me?" If you have a question for P. J. you may e-mail him at the address below and he will give it his best shot. First of all, before we get to the question—let me say what a privilege and humble honor to be back in partnership with the GLEANER and have the opportunity to connect with youth from around the Northwest."Does God like me?" You know this is a que... Read more
A Nose-Worthy Issue When the first note came, we chuckled. One of our loyal readers complained that her issue of the GLEANER smelled so bad she could hardly stand it. An isolated incident, we thought. At times we have struggled with poor spelling, but never bad smell... Read more
Christmas in July Her eyes were riveted to the clock as she waited, timecard in hand, to end her shift. She would escape the torment of this dysfunctional torture chamber called work and roam the mall free for a hour or so of shopping before she had to pick up her ... Read more
Connecting and Reflecting at Rosario Beach Envision sitting on a beach around an orange and red, crackling campfire on a Sabbath evening. Grandmothers, parents and children are bundled against the cool twilight air. Kids dip their hands into frigid buckets of water to play with the crabs a... Read more
The Test of a True Christian A Pharisee once asked Jesus, “Which is the great commandment in the law?" Read more
