Holiday blues or something else?
The holiday blues are common. However, we can choose a different kind of holiday season. Let’s make merry and bright, truly merry and bright together.
Pamela Pyle
The beauty of 'Giving Tuesday'
Giving traditions such as these teach the truth to even the very young that it is better to give than to receive. Giving to others indwells the giver with a unique joy that cannot be reproduced.
We shall never forget the superheroes of 9/11
However, sometimes death arrives like a semi-truck that has run a stop sign. On September 11, 2001, it arrived by planes hitting towers, government offices, and fields of summer grass not yet greeted by the coolness of fall temperatures.
For the unbearable weight of depression
I won’t declare that my life is completely shed of the yoke of depression. However, these practices have lightened its weight and in concert have enriched my relationship with the Lord and with others. I pray they do the same for you.
It’s never too early to plan to die
When we live as if tomorrow will always come, we may miss the opportunity to make today count. When we live in worry that tomorrow might not come, we also miss that same opportunity.
If you didn't get to say goodbye
When one has not had the opportunity to say goodbye, the acceptance of loss is more difficult. Harder still is the final last which is marred by harsh words, unspoken love, and bitter regret.
The post-COVID world: The human problem that we’ll never escape
The Covid-19 pandemic may finally be slowing, but the pandemic has shone a stark light on one human problem that we’ll never escape. One day books analyzing the pandemic will fill whole rows in libraries, but no analysis can dim the glaring human condition that we must face — the fact that we’re all going to die.
The greatest hindrance to sharing the Gospel to a millennial world
The truth is that most of us may never have the opportunity to share the Gospel with thousands of people. However, we all have an opportunity to speak one on one about Christ to a tenth of the number saved that day. I know, because as a new believer, I’ve tried.
