I’ve been watching Billy Graham’s classic crusade messages on youtube.com. Now there was a man who didn’t have an agenda other than Jesus Christ and didn’t promote his books from the pulpit or endorse political candidates, as is the habit of some modern-day “prophets,” evangelists, and mega-church pastors. We are living in a perverse generation […]
If you’ll remember, my friend Tony was let out of jail a week ago last Saturday and found himself freezing in his deceased father’s home before calling 911 and ending up in a Minneapolis hospital mental health unit. I asked for suggestions, and some of you offered them. Thank you. However, God had the answer […]
Tony was released from jail last Saturday and had no place to go except his deceased father’s unheated home. It was 20 below that night, as Tony, draped with blankets, huddled in front of a small space heater. At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, he called a suicide hot line and told them he was freezing […]
What close relationship do you have where you do all the talking, especially when meeting with someone more knowledgeable than yourself? But isn’t that what we often do with God in prayer, whose thoughts and ways are higher than ours? Don’t we too often tell Him what to do with a particular person we’re praying […]
Tony lost his father last week; he didn’t get a chance for a last visit because he’s sitting in the Wright County Jail. That’s pain number one. He and his girlfriend of long standing both have mental health issues that put them on the fringes of society. That’s pain number two. He went to visit […]
Holy Spirit, Lover of my soul,Hearing Your voice has been my goal.And as this day fades out of sight,Watch over all my dreams tonight.
Shawn murdered a young woman in cold blood and had been on death row for two years awaiting his execution. He was as guilty as guilty could be and had great remorse for what he had done. His appeals to escape the death penalty would run out sometime in the next year and then would […]
The following story is not meant to be a simile, metaphor, analogy, parable, or revelation from on high. It’s simply an observation I made yesterday morning at 7 a.m., sitting on a couch about a pillow’s throw from our lower-level gas fireplace. The pilot light is always on in the fireplace, a small blue flame […]
What if I were to walk behind Jesus on the King’s Highway the remainder of my days? What highway is that, you might ask? It’s the highway leading to heaven, with the world in the ditches as I walk by, and me an observer. Jesus is ever before me, beckoning me to follow Him wherever […]
When I look outside-in, it’s all about me. How does the world affect me? How does what happens with this event, situation, or happening affect me? If this person acts in this or that way, is it good or bad for me? Does anyone’s death diminish me? When I look inside-out, it’s all about […]