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This could have been about final moments between a son and his mother. For Mom is fragile now, and 800 miles from Kansas, across the eastern plains to Ohio. Or it could have been about death. For I’m the only male left in Mom’s and Dad’s family. Dad …
WHAT ONE QUESTION would you ask God? That’s what I wanted to know. I sent out the word through my social media outlets. Readers fired back a bunch of questions. But one question, from Janelle Timko, did something to me. I felt something physical, …
HOW MUCH MONEY should a human spend on a sick critter? Buddy the Dog, on a scale of 1 to 10, is more than $500 sick at the moment. He has been to the vet 3 times in the last half-week. First it was a double ear infection. Now he has what appears to …
I TOOK MOST OF THE DAY OFF yesterday. It was for a church thing. Here’s the problem. On April 27 our church had what we call a Mega Mission day. We rallied folks from our church to do spring chores for people in our city who needed help. We worked …
IN MY LIFETIME I have met very few people who are so welcoming, so gracious, and so selfless in the way they treat me, that they feel like family to me. I’d like you to meet one such family. They are German. I just got back from vacationing with …
I MARRIED A NURSE. A few years later, we had a baby. She grew up. Now I have two nurses in my family. I’m thinking about nurses not only because it’s National Nurses Week. It’s because of a phone call we got at 2:16 am on what had become Sunday of …
“Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them” (Matthew 7:12, The Message). THOSE OF YOU who know a bit about me from my writing might be surprised by …
CHRISTIANS SHOULDN’T HAVE SNOW BLOWERS. Not if they: Want to save time Have neighbors I know this because I bought a snow blower. It does not save time…because I have neighbors. We’ve had a pair of foot-high snowstorms in the past week. Each …
I KNOW that the title of this post sounds odd. But it’s true. I found out about it on Christmas Eve—the perfect night to hear the news. The church I attend has multiple locations throughout the Greater Kansas City area: Church of the Resurrection. We …
I DON’T LIVE IN CALCUTTA. But there are helpless people within my reach. Some of them are kids. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream. When, in honor of Dr. King’s birthday, a Kansas City school asked its first-graders what their dream was, here …
I DON’T GET IT. In political discussions, especially about Obamacare, here’s a version of one of the arguments I hear over and over from many of my Christian friends: When God told us to help the poor, he didn’t intend for the government to impose …
WITH A BIG ELECTION around the corner, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about people who need help. I’ve also been comparing notes with my Christian friends about how best to help those needy folks. People such as: The sick who can’t afford healthcare …
