Fresh heart for the journey
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway. – Greg Tamblyn Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share last cookie with.’ –Cookie Monster Sometimes I feel like life has been less about working and a whole lot more about collecting friends! […]
Old friends. As I sit at my computer and think about those words, it’s easy for me to quickly bring to mind many who fit that category. And there are more than a few who I consider my 3:00 am friends. (I could call them at that time and they’d come running!) We have […]
“Just as lotions and fragrance give sensual delight, a sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” Proverbs 27:9 New Living Translation “You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17 New Living Translation Life can be cruel or comfortable. It can be zestful or draining. There are joys in life, but […]
“Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?” C.S. Lewis Joanie and I just spent a week with some great friends. We didn’t sit around a good fire, but we sang together, told ‘God stories’ to each other and spent a substantial time encouraging each […]
60 Seconds of Pastoral Pondering It was called ‘Friend Day’ and was in our church playbook to use occasionally to get our people to invite their unchurched friends to a specific Sunday. It was usually accompanied by some success. There were people who discovered that church wasn’t necessarily all that frightening and that the […]
A professor stood before a roomful of the brightest and best. All were high intensity, success-at-any-cost, go full out until you get what you are going after kinds of students. He held up a large glass jar and proceeded to fill it to the top with large rocks. “Is this jar filled?” he asked. The […]
I am a pastor, teacher, and encourager. I am a happy husband and leader of a family tribe now numbering 13. I am President of Fresh Heart Ministries and consider called of God to help you grow in your spiritual walk … let you know how special you are to God … and have some fun while doing so.