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6/20/2022 1 Comment

Honoring Our Elderly

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​Patricia P. Driscoll and Celia Straus wrote in Hidden Battle on Unseen Fronts, “As a society, we don’t take very good care of one another. Ours is a disposable culture: our children, our elders, our ill and infirm, our natural resources are often ignored, overlooked, forgotten or mistreated.”  Did you know that respect for the elderly is tied in scripture to reverence for God? God did not make people obsolete, objects of derision or relics to be ignored or kept out of the way. We as a society have done this because collectively, we view feebleness and weakness as properties to be avoided.  We don’t wish to be reminded of the last chapters or days of life before death. We want to be strong, healthy and admired. But we see life from such a limited and sadly vain vantage.  God made life, and He made it with eternity in mind.  When we disrespect the elderly, we disrespect what He created, which is never a good practice.  ​

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9/4/2021 0 Comments

Parable of the Sack

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Once upon a true time, a woman was carrying a heavy sack of cereals on her head down a dusty Kenyan road. As she walked the rutted earth on that hot sunny afternoon, a man in a blue, paint-faded pickup truck pulled up alongside her and asked, “Je! Ungependa safari?” (Would you like a ride?). The woman, after wiping the sweat off her brow, smiled at him and said, “Ndio Asante” (Yes, thank you).  So, he pulled over to the side of the road, put the truck in park, and got out to help the woman. She put the sack on the truck bed and the man assisted her in climbing into the back. Then he returned to his cab and continued on his journey.

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11/10/2019 0 Comments

Uncommon Kindness

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Alex is a high school student in Vancouver, Washington.  One day he was driving on a job when he was rear-ended by another driver.  Alex took a photo of the man’s driver’s license so he could report it to his insurance company.  He noticed that the man held a commercial license.  In conversing with him he found out that he was married and  a father and that this was his second accident in less than a month.  The man was upset that he had been so careless.


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10/9/2018 0 Comments

Heartfelt

​Candy and I spent most of the morning writing back and forth about questions regarding the definition of Christians and evangelicals and current events that troubled her. While we may not have the same political leanings that does not prevent us from having honest and prolonged discussion. She ended our time with kind words and greetings to my family.  Candy is one of the most warm-hearted persons I know and it is always a privilege to be around her.  
   


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9/3/2018 0 Comments

Considerate

​Two exhausted, firemen came into a diner around 6 a.m. after working tirelessly for 12 hours to put out a fire. Liz Woodward took their order and just happened to overhear the two firefighters discussing their tiresome battle.  Later, when Tim and Paul went to pay for their breakfast, their bill contained this message: 
Your breakfast is on me today—thank you for all that you do; for serving others and for running into the places everyone else runs away from.  No matter your role, you are courageous, brave, and strong.  Thank you for being bold and badass everyday.  Fueled by fire and driven by courage.  What an example you are.  Get some rest.—Liz

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8/28/2018 0 Comments

Feedback

John the Baptist was discouraged.  The imprisoned forerunner to Jesus was unable to personally witness Jesus at work.  He begin to have doubts as to if Jesus truly was the Messiah.  So he sent his disciples to ask the Lord, “Are You the One who is come, or should we look for someone else?” It was an honest question from a godly prophet.  
 
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Luke 7:22--He replied to them, “Go and report to John the things you have seen and heard: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with skin diseases are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news.
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9/25/2016 1 Comment

Six Benefits of Helping the Poor

I want to share with you a moment burned into my mind as a poignant testimony to generosity.  My daughter, Sarah and I, experienced this moment in the city of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, in 2002.  In the course of ministering to a small church in this town located at the top of the Andean mountains, we met street children who were collecting trash or anything of value they could find on the streets, in order to garner a handful of coins.

​Although home to one of the deepest silver mines in the world, Cerro de Pasco’s 70,000 inhabitants are mostly poor.   One would think that any money a child could scrape would be zealously guarded and used for food or clothing.  But these joyful children tithed from what they had in order to give to missionaries.  It was a demonstration of the poorest giving to the poor to honor and expand God’s work. Someday I hope to learn how God blessed them!

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5/28/2016 0 Comments

Incense--Fragrant Prayer

Walking into my office downstairs I was immediately aware of a great aroma.  That observation was quickly followed by one of relief. I had left my fragrance lamp on all night and that could have been a fire hazard.  Fortunately, the melted eucalyptus/mint-laced wax cubes created a wonderful scent and nothing had overheated.  
 
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Psalm 141:2—May my prayer be set before You as incense, the raising of my hands as the evening offering.

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12/31/2013 0 Comments

Take Your Tie Off!

​Dr. Jerry White shares an insightful story in his book Rules To Live By.  A young lieutenant forgot to wear his tie with his dress uniform on the day he had to brief a general.  Not having enough time to return home, he buttoned up his raincoat and wore it into the meeting.  When the general asked him why he was wearing his raincoat, the young man admitted he’d forgotten to wear his tie.  So, the general told him to take off his raincoat and then he asked everyone present for the meeting to remove their neckties.[1]  


[1]Jerry White, Rules to Live By, Colorado Springs: NavPress, ©2010, ps 112,113

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12/22/2013 0 Comments

From Dear John to Manila

​In the fall of 1977, I struggled mightily to get my Calculus grade from an F to a D.  Worn out from a heavy academic load, I looked forward to flying to Idaho to spend the holidays with my girlfriend and my favorite aunt and uncle. Just weeks before leaving, I received a “Dear John” letter from Julie, graciously letting me know that she was seeing someone in California and wanted to break up.  On top of that bad news, this was the last year that West Point had final exams after the holidays meaning I had much studying to do over the last two weeks of December. My heart was heavy and my mind was not on math. When I returned to New York I scored the lowest in the entire class on the Calculus exam, failed the course, and had to go to summer school.

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7/30/2011 0 Comments

Ebed-Melech

​The prophet Jeremiah foretold disaster for his countrymen and they felt he was a traitor.  Powerful officials talked King Zedekiah into having him killed because his words weakened the resolve of their soldiers.  So they took the old man and threw him into a cistern where he sank into the mud.  Ironically, Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian eunuch who served the king, interceded on his behalf. The king had a change of heart and ordered Ebed to take thirty men and rescue Jeremiah before he died.  The wise eunuch threw rags down to him to put under his armpits and then with ropes pulled him out.  God was so pleased with the Ethiopian that through Jeremiah He promised to preserve his life. 

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2/12/2011 0 Comments

Thoughtful

​Have you ever been hugged by someone and it just seemed like the cares and hurts no longer seemed so bad?  Doris is the queen of hugs.  Someone avoided by others she approaches and gives her signature loving embrace.  Doris will occasionally ask Dan if is okay for someone to come home with them for a meal or maybe to stay for a night, a week, or a month.   If there is a hidden need, Doris will find it.  Out of her own personal pain and trials, God gave this woman eyes to see deep into the hearts of others and to respond with thoughtfulness. Her legacy is her loving touch!  

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2/6/2009 0 Comments

Inconsiderate

​Between leading First Cause and commanding the 104th Division, I average about two weeks of travel each month. Consequently, I have many opportunities to meet new people and experience the ups and downs of flying.  Recently, I was in an airport and feeling hungry I purchased a large smoothie (a blended and chilled, sweet beverage made from fruit), before boarding the plane.   I placed the drink on the side of my seat and then put my luggage in the compartment.  Unfortunately, in the act of sitting down I knocked the cup over.  Horror of horrors—dark, red liquid poured all over the carpeted floor.  

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