Fresh heart for the journey
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” Mark Twain I doubt you missed the news, but we’re about to enter a new year. And we begin this year immediately after a nation-altering election. Some were confident before November 8th but are fearful now; others were fearful before […]
60 Seconds of Pastoral Ponderings A blog for leaders As a pastor I get excited reading the Book of Acts. And why not? It’s still the blueprint for the church right now. Nations rise and fall, morality takes center stage and a decade or two later is kicked clear out of the theater. Opinions […]
We visited a church this morning that we had ministered in for ten years. But twenty eight years have passed since then. I walked into a familiar foyer, looked at the familiar pews and picked out faces of people who had walked through our lives and left footprints in our memories. There were kids […]
What a joy to be writing this Christmas letter from Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho … our new ‘old home.’ We left this beautiful place 28 years ago and have returned to a place we truly love In the interim we have moved many times, but it allowed us to meet and become friends with some […]
“ … You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Luke 2:12 NIV We find these words in one of Scriptures most implausible stories. As heaven’s PR advance team break into earthly view, they drop the most important news ever into the laps of some of the least likely recipients. […]
Long before there was Cyber Monday, Amazon.com, digital store ads and multitudes of television commercials for every imaginable (and some unimaginable) products … there was the Sears catalog. When Richard Sears first used printed mailers to advertise his products in 1888, the time was ripe for mail order business. Fueled by the Homestead Act […]
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.