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  • It’s funny how I would never Pray for my favorite NFL, MLB, or NHL  Team to Win Of course, you are so much more concerned With the state of your church, and the many lost and hurting souls Than my team’s current rankings I know what you value Yet find myself praying for my son’s…

  • I wasn’t too concerned.  We had just driven this a year ago.  How difficult can it be?  I lived in Dallas for two years without google maps.  Did we really need to use it every second?  Well, despite my husband’s warnings, I missed two exits. In both cases, I didn’t think we had to turn…

  • I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. In a lifetime of living within an hour of this small resort town, I hadn’t seen anything like it.  A rare flood engulfing the main street receded, leaving the street filled with river rock-not small river rock, but large rocks requiring heavy equipment to remove them.  We thought…

  • This Puzzle Called Life http://box5297.temp.domains/~carrifk7/?p=754 — Read on box5297.temp.domains/~carrifk7/

  • Nobody likes discomfort, but life in a fallen world guarantees uncertainty. This puzzle we call life requires it. As James tells us, that God is not only with us “when (we) meet trails of various kinds” but will produce “steadfastness” eventually making us “perfect and complete, lacking in nothing”, not one missing piece (James 1:2-4).…

  • It was 1996, and while the Olympic Games were being held in Atlanta, GA, I was teaching 40+ Chinese teenagers in a Soviet-style concrete building with live electric wires running down the halls. It was a hot, June day, and my eager students, usually so quiet I could hear a pin drop, did something that…

  • The teacher in Ecclesiastes tells us there is “a time to mourn” (3:4). But in all reality, life can sometimes feel a lot more like one long mourning period. It seems the longer we live, the more we mourn.