Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
When my brother and I were kids we used to fight over it. Whenever my mom would mix cake or cookie batter, Cheyenne and I would jockey for the premier clean up position. Whoever got there first would get to scrape the bottom of the mixing bowl, while the other poor fool would be relegated to licking the batter off of the arms of the…
My grandmother died this weekend, and her passing has gotten me thinking again about the perspectives of people in heaven. Do you ever wonder what your departed loved ones would say to you now that they’ve spent some time there? Whether they’ve been there six months or several decades I’m sure their perspective on our natural lives has changed. The grief that plagued them here…
Do you ever feel like you’re trapped in the wrong dimension? You probably are. Most of us live in the present moment while spending significant amounts of our emotional energy either regretting the past or worrying about the future. Sometimes we regret the past because it’s over. We loved our past and we wish we could still be living in yesterday’s season of life. At…
A parenting coach once remarked about curfews: “Nothing good happens after midnight.” It’s probably good advice since most deviant behavior occurs in the late night hours when shops are closed, streets are empty, and everything is cast in shadow. However, what do you do when it isn’t a curfew you’re discussing but your life? What do you do when you’re in a midnight season of…
Four years ago in his televised interviews with then presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, Pastor Rick Warren aptly stated: “We believe in the separation of church and state, but we do not believe in the separation of faith and politics.” One of the beautiful freedoms in our American heritage is our right to worship without the intrusion of the state. We don’t want…