Small and BIG
“There are people who would want to help you if you’d let them.” That’s what I sensed God say to me in 2009 when Kristi…
Tag: Stories
Assisting the Wonderful Counselor
Early in my graduate training to become a psychologist I offered counseling to a young female undergraduate student with my professor and class watching and…
My Super Bowl Dad
Do you see a dominant running back when you look at me as a boy in my green football uniform? Neither did I. Nor did…
My Father’s House
Our youngest child is eighteen years old and in college! Where did the years go? Here’s a journal entry I wrote eleven years ago when…
When it Rains on Your Parade
In 2006 our family was excited to go to the New Year’s Day Rose Parade with some friends, but when we got up early that…
A Pastor and Wife’s Divine Romance
Ray and Anne Ortlund have been an inspiration to Kristi and I. They showed us what it looks like for busy pastors, busy ministry leaders,…
Swimming Through Codependency
We learn in the Bible that “Without a vision people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). This is true for you and I today. In 1952 Florence Chadwick…
I Was Orbiting Around People
We all have a certain rhythm of life, our own pattern for how we relate to people and do our work. It can become like…
I Had Too Many Balls to Hit!
We just took our youngest child to college and arrived home to an empty nest. I said to Bill, “I feel like a baseball batter…
Pray for the Success of Competitors
F. B. Meyer was pastor at Christ Church in London, England late in the 19th Century when Charles Spurgeon came to town. Spurgeon’s crowds at…