“BELIEVING IS SEEING”

April 5, 2012

No, I haven’t got my “mords wixed”.  Yes, I know that folks from Missouri (“Show Me” State) would say that I have erred in my thinking.  What I am sharing here in this Lenten message is a biblical perspective that does run contrary to the way our culture thinks.  We live in a scientific, empirical [...]

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The Real “Real” World

November 9, 2010

While speaking with a parent who was considering enrolling in our school, he expressed that he was struggling with the thought that a Christian school shelters kids, wanting his children “exposed to the real world”.  I responded, “Really?”  Do you truly believe that what is going on in secular education today is the real world?  [...]

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“It’s An Honor To Be Here”

September 13, 2010

This school year marks my thirty-first year in Christian education!  Over the summer I mentally and emotionally “retraced the steps” of my journey.  As I was meditating upon our school’s year verse in preparation for what I would share at orientation, I was struck by the fact that it was such an honor to be [...]

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Retreat . . . to Advance

January 13, 2010

Our board of trustees recently returned from our second annual retreat.  To get right to the point, I would highly recommend that your Christian ministry board plan to retreat . . . in order to advance.  There’s just no getting away from it, you need to “get away” from it and get together for refreshment [...]

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Pears In Poplar Trees

December 17, 2009

You can’t stop Christmas!  It happened as an historical event and it continues to happen in our lives each Advent season.  We prepare . . . prepare our homes for visiting, prepare our meals for consuming, prepare our gifts for sharing, prepare our churches for worshiping, and (hopefully) prepare our hearts for reflecting upon “Emmanuel”, [...]

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“Preparing a Highway For Our God”

December 14, 2009

My wife and I recently had a nostalgic moment while driving to upstate New York to visit our daughter and new granddaughter.  We are from that area and were traveling along the “highways & byways” we had known for over twenty years.  It fostered much discussion about all the memories we had made, traveling these [...]

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“Advent Perspective”

December 8, 2009

OK, last weekend I had my annual bout with converting to atheism.  This consideration is brought on while putting up our Christmas decorations!  Between the tree in the house and the lights outside, I wondered what I really believed in and why?!?!?!  First the tree.  We have a family tradition of joining our oldest daughter [...]

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Objection . . . Overruled

November 29, 2009

It was November of 1979 that I entered the ministry of Christian education.  I can hardly believe it’s been 30 years!  It seems like “only yesterday”.  In that thirty years, God has taken me on such a wonderful adventure filled with experiences and opportunities not many others can claim.  There have been indescribable blessings and [...]

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Thanks Be to God . . .

November 24, 2009

. . . for His indescribable gift!”  This tight little phrase is one of my favorites because, while it is only eight words, there are literally thousands of words that I can add to it within invisible parentheses.  I always bring it out for display and meditation at this time of year.  It seems like [...]

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“S.O.S.”

November 19, 2009

Many outside of the nautical world may not know this universal distress code (“••• ——— •••”) anymore, and perhaps our modern technology has relegated it to “Davy Jones’ locker?  Yet I believe it needs some revitalization and renewed emphasis today.  Traditionally, those nine electronic clicks signaled “Save Our Ship” (S.O.S.), and were telegraphed as a [...]

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