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Dec, 21, 2013 0
One of my fondest memories of our son, Brent's, early childhood began when he was no more than three years old. Brent delighted in putting his little feet into my big shoes and walking around the house in them. Of course, my shoes swallowed his little feet. However, he loved playing with my big…
Dec, 12, 2013 0
Abraham Lincoln once said, "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
To Lincoln, learning was both an orientation and a daily adventure to be explored throughout life. People who are truly effective in what they do generally did not get that way by sitting…
Dec, 12, 2013 0
Love wins, really, it does. But how does love win? That is the question that requires an answer.
Lately, there has been considerable controversy about God's love and what it means when we say "love wins." Some suggest that love wins by finally overlooking one's lack of response to God's…
Dec, 12, 2013 0
Love wins, really, it does. But how does love win? That is the question that requires an answer.
Lately, there has been considerable controversy about God's love and what it means when we say "love wins." Some suggest that love wins by finally overlooking one's lack of response to God's…
Dec, 12, 2013 0
Over the last few months I have participated in some interesting conversations.
Should national flags be in the church sanctuary — and who gets to decide?
Is marriage a civil relationship the church blesses, or a sacred covenant of the church that the state chooses to recognize?
Is it possible…
Dec, 12, 2013 0
On Sundays in the Nazarene church I attended as a child, it was expected that we sing a rousing, and I do mean rousing, rendition of "Jesus Loves the Little Children." Enthusiastically, we emphasized the all in "all the children of the world" and sang to a resounding finale, "They are precious in…
Dec, 12, 2013 0
It's almost impossible to get to the site where Samarite Dessuisseau has convened this meeting.
The road, if you can call it that, is dirt, gravel, boulders, dry river beds, hard right turns, and harder left turns. Make sure you have enough momentum going to make it up the final steep climb. Few…
Nov, 17, 2013 0
Even before the calendar says November, the images and sounds of the commercial Christmas season can be seen and heard on television and in the marketplace. Commercial Christmas has borrowed many of the symbols of Christmas while forgetting the meaning connected to those symbols. How do parents,…
Sep, 15, 2013 0
Not to Be Confused with Pinocchio
We have been warned by well-meaning Sunday school teachers and by preachers for generations: Don't run from God—remember what happened to Jonah!
This warning has conjured up Jaws-like images of big fish (or even whales, since we sometimes get this story…
Sep, 10, 2013 0
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1916
Many life-changing experiences transpired before Mother and I arrived at the white frame Nazarene Church building on the corner of Third Avenue and Robinson Street in Paden City, West Virginia, in the 1930s. The congregation, organized in the 20s, met in store buildings and…