Entries from May 2009

May 24, 2009

Memorial Day is About Remembering…

I come from a family that will always remember a great loss.  My uncle Ted Morton was killed in action in Korea in 1951 and was MIA for seventeen months before they located his body in a shallow grave on a Korean beach.  He was an infantryman in the army and had been killed rushing from [...]

May 21, 2009

Meek and Humble Christians, What a Concept!

At times I grow weary of the way Christians posture themselves with one another.  
Sometimes it seems to me that the main objective of evangelicalism has degraded to being all about “correctness.”
Rather than shining forth the characteristics of Christ and being a beacon of love, peace, mercy and humility to each other and to a hurting world; I [...]

May 16, 2009

Making a Believing Preparation for the Divine Blessing

 
A Word For Today
From Morning and Evening
by C.H. Spurgeon
Entry May 16th Evening Verse
 
“And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches. For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye and [...]

May 16, 2009

Free To Be Me

Many of you have commented that you just can’t get this song out of your head.  It is a good one by a young gal named Francesca Battistelli.  She won the dove award this year for best new Christian artist.  I love it, we should all be “Free To Be Me.”

May 11, 2009

Passing on Wisdom: The Art of Mentoring

 
Throughout history, training in the areas of marital life, childbearing, mothering and homemaking have always been lessons best passed on through one-on-one relationships.  Generation to generation, the most important of life’s skills have been passed on informally in the context of community.  “True wisdom” has continued down a chain linking older to younger and more [...]