This is the final “Bless Your Heart” post for the year 2013. I can hardly wrap my mind around the volume of correspondence, the number of new friends contacted and the little limbs like “Digging Deep” that have come from this spiritual planting over the past few years. I believe there are around five or…
Never in my memory has a publication like THINK magazine been available in any major mainstream book market. By the grace of God, THINK, a very sound and influential publication, is now available in airport magazine stands, Barnes and Noble Booksellers and Book World. Now that’s a blessing worth celebrating. Will you take the time…
Today I cried about the dumbest thing. I mean I actually wept over something so trivial that it makes me ashamed to even think about it. People I know are spending the night in hospital rooms beside the beds of loved ones who may not recover. Someone I know has recently found out her husband…
Is it ever too early to begin preparing our kids for the time when they will choose their mates for life? It’s a daunting job in our world in which over half of marriages end in divorce. Are there ways we can enable our children to lay strong and Biblical foundations for their future homes?…
The next six posts will be short recollections of holiday times with family. Each will include something that somehow is etched permanently into my memory from holidays past. And each will include some lesson learned from that magical (or, in some cases, mournful) holiday moment. Do you have a Christmas memory you’d like to share…
Question: Is placing membership with a congregation Biblical. Is it necessary? Please explain. Response: Certainly the words “placing membership” are not found in any translation of the New Testament, yet there is an implication that, in some way, we should allow the elders of a local church the means of identifying the members over which…