by admin | Nov 14, 2024 | Life Lessons
I received this email recently from Damon D. Having spent many years actively teaching the Bible and the fatherhood discipleship curriculum -From Faith to Faith- at the Union Gospel Mission, I was certainly humbled and equally grateful for his message of a changed...
by admin | Nov 7, 2024 | Life Lessons
We’re all probably familiar with “The Power of One”. It began as a novel first published in 1989 and a movie in 1992. It’s about an English South African boy raised under apartheid in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow...
by admin | Nov 2, 2024 | Life Lessons
God spoke clearly to the Israelites at the dedication of the temple by Solomon. He revealed that he could shut up the heavens, so that there was no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land or even send pestilence among his people. Doesn’t sound very pleasant or...
by admin | Nov 2, 2024 | Life Lessons
Freedom…is never free. You have heard that many times. Maybe it has become such an oft-spoken phrase, especially at times of memorials, that it has become a cliché. Unless you have been directly impacted by circumstances that really hit close to home, this is a...
by lifetoday | Oct 21, 2024 | Life Lessons
A number of years ago, Joanne and I were selected to lead the Evangelism Explosion ministry within Highland Park Presbyterian Church. We all studied the material in depth which was developed by Dr. James Kennedy at Coral Gables Presbyterian Church. Our teams would go...
by admin | Oct 11, 2024 | Life Lessons
When you hear the word purposeful, what comes to mind? Not just ‘with purpose’, go deeper. Our astute dictionarians (my word) would tell us it is: ‘having or showing determination or resolve; intentional, full of determination, meaningful’. I love these: ‘bent on,...
