The Works of God

Today is the second day of the Desiring God annual Conference for Pastors.  This year’s topic is God, Manhood and Ministry: Building Men for the Body of Christ. Please pray for these pastors (and all pastors!) who lead hundreds of churches that reach tens of thousands of people.  This issue is really important for children [...]

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I ran into Sears and saw at least twenty of these signs hanging from the ceiling and on the door. I mean, come on!  Even hardened materialists understand that more ‘stuff” only buys a fleeting moment of satisfaction and just as frequently a longer season of buyer’s regret. But then I found myself feeling sorry [...]

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Today is a sad day of remembrance. Like the extraordinary events of previous generations – the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the assassination of President Kennedy, for example – I can immediately answer the question of where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001 when I heard an airplane had struck a tower in [...]

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Pastor Bud Burk shepherds the children’s program at the downtown and south campuses and has been a great proponent for including all the children, including our ‘different’ children.  From the first time I met this man, before he was hired at Bethlehem, I knew I could learn a great deal from him about trusting in [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I was lamenting that I would never experience my oldest son learning how to drive. His mother and grandmother reminded me that he already knows how to drive! That little driver in the middle is a boy who is completely blind, living with severe autism and cognitive disabilities, driving a [...]

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Now a ‘what’ but a ‘who’! My niece came to visit this past weekend, and she was able to coax a few smiles out of our boy (and a lot of smiles out of the rest of us!).  Those smiles have been few and far between with these spells of his, so that little smile [...]

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Thank you to Jan Lacher for pointing me to this.  This video has been around for almost a year, but I just saw it and was reminded, again, how extraordinary is the love of God toward us.

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On Thursday morning I received one of those work emails that nobody likes to get.  A project was not going as planned and would require significant thought and redirection. So, as I got Paul up to get him ready for school my mind was not on him or on God, but was filled with thoughts [...]

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Thanks to Daniel Knight who was searching through books I read as a boy, read these strips to his mother who then suggested them for the blog. From Take it easy, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz.

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