An elderly woman was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died of cancer just a few months earlier. Now, several days before Christmas, she was almost snowed in by a brutal weather system. She felt terribly alone - so much so she decided she was not going to decorate her home…
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Dec, 11, 2012 0
On a beautiful day in South Carolina, near where we lived and served as pastor, my family and I headed into the Blue Ridge foothills. As we drove, a little Christian store with "holiness" prominently displayed on its sign caught my attention. We pulled over and walked into the place. I observed the…
Dec, 11, 2012 0
If you had eavesdropped on one British couple during the Advent season of 1921, you would have heard lament. The year had been punctuated by a string of deaths.
In January, the wife's grandmother died and the husband had a family member killed in a railroad accident.
In April, the wife's…
Dec, 10, 2012 0
Keith Wright, former Kansas City District superintendent, will be forever known for his words, "Lost and broken people matter to Jesus."
In Luke 15, there are three stories about the lost. I've been studying this chapter for many years and recently it occurred to me that Jesus was talking about…
Dec, 10, 2012 0
Keith Wright, former Kansas City District superintendent, will be forever known for his words, "Lost and broken people matter to Jesus."
In Luke 15, there are three stories about the lost. I've been studying this chapter for many years and recently it occurred to me that Jesus was talking about…
Dec, 10, 2012 0
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace" (Luke 2:14).
Mother Teresa stood near the podium to receive the acclaimed Nobel Peace Prize. The presenter asked this devout woman who had given her life for the poor of India, "Mother Teresa, what can we do to help promote world peace?"
She…
Dec, 10, 2012 0
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace" (Luke 2:14).
Mother Teresa stood near the podium to receive the acclaimed Nobel Peace Prize. The presenter asked this devout woman who had given her life for the poor of India, "Mother Teresa, what can we do to help promote world peace?"
She…
Dec, 10, 2012 0
Among its other joys, the Advent season invites us into the setting of Jesus' first coming - not a Roman palace, but a cramped, dirty stable in a hamlet named Bethlehem. A single fact measures the distance between that world and ours - the first century lacked electricity. No electricity? No…
Dec, 04, 2012 0
Sue, a retired missionary who served many years in Haiti, now regularly volunteers her time to serve as the nurse for holiness camp meetings.
On the last day of a camp meeting in Alabama she stumbled and fell while walking on uneven ground and broke a major bone in her left foot. After the foot…
Nov, 26, 2012 0
David J. Spittal is president of MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) in Olathe, Kansas, a role he assumed in February. Son of a Nazarene pastor, he was born and raised in Canada. He and his wife, Donna, have two married sons, Todd and Ryan, and six grandchildren.
Explain your career progression…