Pastor Appreciation Month: 2 Pastors

Pastor Appreciation Month: 2 Pastors

Mr. Worrier stands on shore and stares at the water. He analyzes nature’s strategy and studies rhythm, motion, balance. He knows the crest reveals height as it contrasts the trough. The current keeps motion moving and moving and moving as he remains still, only...
Pastor Appreciation Month: Local and Global

Pastor Appreciation Month: Local and Global

I confess. Denver, Colorado, is an exceptional place. The air, the appearance, the atmosphere: all so different from my normal world. I’ve been there to attend a conference and I’ve been there to see family. But as I stared at natural beauty and studied supernatural...
Pastor Appreciation: Lengthy and Sudden

Pastor Appreciation: Lengthy and Sudden

Sometimes we learn and grow slowly. Ourselves, our families, our churches. Sometimes everything changes suddenly. Too suddenly. I don’t like either extreme. But that’s life. How I respond to our sometimes-in-a-hurry-God and our sometimes-very-slow-God can heal me or...
My Own Underwater by Paul W. Smith

My Own Underwater by Paul W. Smith

I’ve known Chris as a writer for probably twenty-five years or more; however, the first time I met him face-to-face was five weeks after he was diagnosed with viral encephalitis. Although most of the people who knew him discovered that he had become a new Chris, I...
Notice

Notice

We are busy. Very busy.  We are in a hurry. Always.  As we rush we miss so much. A face, a voice, a life, a story. An opportunity, an event. A need. A song, a sentence, a note, a need. The multiple methods of immediately obtaining information keeps us aware of...