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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 11:37, 30 May 2024 Mom’s Role in Raising Boys (hist) [9,251 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''Audio Transcript''' ''Happy day after Mother’s Day to all the moms listening in. Thanks for listening to the podcast. We’re often asked parenting questions. You...')
- 11:19, 24 May 2024 How to Help a Child Pray (hist) [9,807 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} One afternoon, when my son Nathan was six, he announced that he had prayed and asked God to bring his friend Asa over to our house to play. I was tempted to call Asa’...')
- 11:28, 17 May 2024 Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless (hist) [10,619 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''Audio Transcript''' ''Welcome back to another week on the Ask Pastor John podcast. In our Bible reading this week, we’re in the thick of it, reading through Levit...')
- 11:23, 16 May 2024 To War, to Christ, to Glory (hist) [9,592 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} What assassin better cloaks himself than Satan? He is a rumor whispered, a rustling of the bush, a cutthroat who leaves no witnesses. Everywhere he devastates, yet, sel...')
- 11:23, 3 May 2024 Life Beneath a Sovereign Lord (hist) [9,773 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' How His Power Unleashes Us '''==== Some truths about God we receive into our minds as we might receive a houseguest, expecting them to behave nicely and genera...')
- 11:59, 29 April 2024 The Unimpressive Path to Immortality (hist) [11,226 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} I knew a man who walked away from Jesus because he did not know what to do on Friday nights. When unbelieving, he knew exactly what to do. As a Christian, he wasn’t s...')
- 11:35, 26 April 2024 When Elders Disagree (hist) [9,773 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info|When Elders Disagree}}<br> ====''' A Pathway for Pastoral Conflicts '''==== How should fellow elders of the same church navigate dissent, discord, and differences? In th...')
- 11:28, 26 April 2024 Be Ready to Speak of Jesus (hist) [9,454 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Evangelism as Spiritual Warfare '''==== On my desk sits a book with a dark image on its cover: a Christian soldier stands alone, surrounded by spiritual enemie...')
- 11:59, 25 April 2024 No Suffering Is Unseen (hist) [8,102 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Why Our Secret Pain Really Matters '''==== What is the point of suffering in obscurity? That question haunted me for years. I wondered if there was any purpos...')
- 13:04, 12 December 2023 Rediscovering the Joy of Writing (hist) [15,560 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Six Lessons for a Lifelong Habit '''==== Once upon a time, you loved to write. Maybe as a child you spent hours in your room, scribbling imaginative stories. O...')
- 13:03, 6 December 2023 ‘Just Not Feeling It’ (hist) [10,665 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info|‘Just Not Feeling It’}}<br> ====''' How Routine Awakens Devotion '''==== “Not feeling like it.” In the daily pursuit of Christ, I fear no phrase has hindered me ...')
- 12:55, 5 December 2023 Habits of Grit (hist) [11,201 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Athletics, Grace, and the Christian Work Ethic '''==== Not many of us are farmers. Not anymore. And relatively few of us have served as soldiers in combat. But...')
- 12:42, 5 December 2023 A Time for Courageous Love (hist) [10,736 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} The Christian grandmother, talking with me about her daughter and grandson, was heartbroken. As her daughter unveiled her new life, beliefs, and rules, this grandmothe...')
- 12:55, 1 December 2023 Comforting Lies About Suffering (hist) [8,999 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Comforting Lies About Suffering '''==== ''' How the Prosperity Gospel Hurts People ''' I’ve been told that suffering cannot be God’s will for me. I’ve b...')
- 13:11, 29 November 2023 ‘Oh Slay the Wicked’ (hist) [17,119 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '<p><span class="fck_mw_template">{{info}}</span> </p> <h4><b> How Christians Sing Curses </b></h4> <p>Maybe you’ve had this experience while reading the Bible. You turn to Psal...')
- 13:00, 28 November 2023 The Severe Kindness of Jesus (hist) [9,607 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Hearing Mercy in His Hard Words '''==== Jesus has a popular reputation with many as a gentle, lowly teacher and healer who calls the sick, the shamed, and the ...')
- 12:50, 28 November 2023 Marital Conflict for New Wives (hist) [6,415 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} The early months and years of marriage are a time of significant change. Marriage involves at least one or both people moving to join as husband and wife under one roof...')
- 12:42, 24 November 2023 Get Behind Me, Sluggard (hist) [9,920 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Four Lessons Against Laziness '''==== If you look deep inside yourself, you may notice, to your dismay, the presence of a singularly unattractive creature. You...')
- 20:02, 22 September 2023 A Faithful Man Who Can Find? (hist) [8,741 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info| A Faithful Man Who Can Find? }}<br> I first got to know the man who became my father-in-law when I began to date his beautiful, godly daughter. That was half his life ag...')
- 19:42, 13 September 2023 A Leader for the Long Haul (hist) [7,229 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ===='' The Legacy of Enduring Pastors ''===== Legacies are multigenerational. For good or evil, your influence has the potential to span generations, even eternity, im...')
- 20:04, 29 August 2023 That Kind of Happy (hist) [7,809 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''The Wide Eyes of a Psalm 1 Man ''' When I applied for seminary, I had the naive notion that I would graduate (after just four years) having essentially mastered the...')
- 19:11, 9 August 2023 More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed (hist) [8,661 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '' Commencement Address | Bethlehem College & Seminary | Minneapolis''')
- 19:12, 28 July 2023 Chapters of Mothering (hist) [7,981 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ''''' How Reading Shapes a Child ''''' Some milestones in our children’s lives stick with us. I cannot forget teaching our children to read — a pleasure that conti...')
- 19:46, 27 July 2023 Live for Days You Will Not See (hist) [10,369 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ==== The Beauty of Christian Legacy ==== Imagine that you receive a word from a trustworthy prophet. It begins hopefully enough: “You will live long and die in peace...')
- 20:12, 15 February 2023 Good Leaders Are Easy to Follow (hist) [8,702 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Shepherds Shape the Sheep''' If I let my 5-year-old have a can of Coke, a bag of Skittles, and half a dozen Oreos right before bed, I shouldn’t be surprised if ...')
- 20:06, 15 February 2023 Every Marriage Needs a Mission (hist) [9,840 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Three Steps for Husbands''' Our typical images of romantic, married love picture a couple facing each other, eyes locked in mutual affection. And for good reason. Ad...')
- 19:58, 15 February 2023 Beneath the Mountain of Smoke (hist) [8,838 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Recovering the Awe of Worship''' What happens every Sunday when the church gathers? We meet with God. Do such words still hold weight for you? Some of us arrive late...')
- 19:48, 15 February 2023 The Resilient Mother (hist) [7,489 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How We Bend Without Breaking''' Along the wooded trail behind my home, a birch tree arches in a graceful curve as it stretches across the pathway. It’s a veteran of...')
- 19:40, 15 February 2023 Friends Who Fell Away (hist) [9,172 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ''''When Apostasy Comes Close to Home''' The memories, on most days, seem better left forgotten. Never has remembering sweet Bible studies tasted so bitter. Flashbacks of late-ni...')
- 19:40, 3 January 2023 The Starving Eyes of Man (hist) [8,904 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Why We Ache to See Glory''' The eyes of man were made for glory. His soul hungers for something worth seeing. This world is a war of spectacles. Man is a watching cr...')
- 19:25, 3 January 2023 When Praying Hurts (hist) [7,469 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Go to God in Suffering''' My desire to pray when I’m suffering can swing wildly in a single day — and sometimes within the hour. Through the severe trials ...')
- 19:08, 3 January 2023 Born Between God and Man (hist) [6,975 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Welcoming Our Long-Awaited Priest''' “Noël, Noël, Noël, Noël, born is the King of Israel” is a glorious refrain from a much-beloved Christmas hymn. And of cou...')
- 19:01, 3 January 2023 The Pleasure of God in Ordinary Work (hist) [7,381 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}I wonder how many people in his day knew the apostle Paul as a guy who made and fixed tents. Surely many did. When he went to Corinth, he went to see Aquila and Priscilla...')
- 17:36, 3 January 2023 We Call Him ‘Father’ (hist) [8,443 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Privilege of Christian Prayer''' If you primarily think of God as your Father, and if you usually address God as ''Father'' when you pray, you have Jesus to thank...')
- 16:10, 9 December 2022 A Rest for Any Restlessness (hist) [8,341 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}If you could capture in a word what it feels like to live as a fallen human, far from Eden, what might you say? ''Sorrowful,'' perhaps, or ''broken''. ''Frustrating. Dark...')
- 15:58, 9 December 2022 How to Care for the Brokenhearted at Christmas (hist) [6,755 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}The more joys and sorrows I live through personally and see in those around me, the more convinced I am that Christmas — over any other season — tends to make life’...')
- 15:55, 9 December 2022 The Secret Failure of Many Leaders (hist) [9,383 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}They bought jeans already torn at the knees. The ambassadors from the great city left in haste to make peace with Joshua and his coming armies. But first, locals reported...')
- 04:35, 9 December 2022 Honor an Old Face (hist) [11,014 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Lost Art of Respecting Our Elders''' Moses, in the classic movie ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956), goes down to oversee the work of the Hebrew slaves. He does not ...')
- 19:18, 27 November 2022 How to Care for a Pastor (hist) [9,783 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Ways to Uplift Your Shepherds''' Like a viper from the bushes, the Amalek attacked Israel. The shores had not yet washed clean of Pharoah’s army, nor had the p...')
- 14:54, 21 November 2022 How to Fail a Wife (hist) [12,268 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Learning Marriage from a Bad Husband''' We might dismiss the first marriage as too extraordinary to be practically helpful. How could any ordinary sinful husband or w...')
- 14:35, 21 November 2022 How Do I Pray from the Misery of My Sin? (hist) [8,309 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Audio Transcript''' ''Welcome back to the podcast. We have been doing this podcast for almost a decade now. And over those ten years there have been some moving pasto...')
- 14:25, 21 November 2022 Can Christians Date Nonbelievers? (hist) [11,099 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Of all the Christians who start dating a nonbeliever, how many of them planned to do so? I suspect few Christians set out to intentionally date (much less marry) a nonbe...')
- 02:44, 21 November 2022 God Made the World for Worship (hist) [14,669 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings''' The ''individual'' human soul, rightly seeing the glory of Christ and rightly savoring the glory of Christ, is at the heart...')
- 02:24, 21 November 2022 The Embattled Pastor (hist) [9,476 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ' {{info}}'''How to Navigate Conflict and Criticism''' <blockquote>“Your church lacks community.”</blockquote> <blockquote>“You botched caring for me during my husband’s...')
- 02:10, 21 November 2022 How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners? (hist) [22,359 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Godward Life Conference''' I want to begin with a story that I hope encourages the younger people among us, putting within you a passion to do something significant w...')
- 01:44, 21 November 2022 Lead Me, O Lord (hist) [10,026 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Ten Prayers for Christian Leaders''' ''Pastor'' is a strange and difficult calling. It’s strange because, to use the biblical metaphor, a pastor is a sheep to whom ...')
- 15:43, 18 November 2022 Screen Sabbaths (hist) [10,985 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Modest Proposal for a Digital World''' A few years ago, a group of cognitive and behavioral psychologists took five hundred college students, split them into three ...')
- 01:36, 14 November 2022 Am I Ready for Ministry? (hist) [10,853 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Many a man has asked the question, “Am I called to pastoral ministry?” And many a wise leader has counseled him to place the matter upon the three-legged stool of asp...')
- 00:58, 14 November 2022 Why Don’t We Have Good Friends? (hist) [11,958 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}How many close friends do you have in your life today? Take a minute and count them. Do you have more or less than you did ten years ago? One recent study confirms what ...')
- 00:46, 14 November 2022 Can Cancer Be God’s Servant? (hist) [8,690 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''What I Saw in My Wife’s Last Years''' In March, my beloved wife, Nanci, lost her four-year battle with colon cancer. All 54 years I’ve known her, Nanci loved Jesu...')
