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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 19:45, 7 April 2025 Why Your Life Isn’t Working (hist) [7,922 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Are you happy? Are you satisfied? You tour the zoo with your daughter and peer into the glass with the gorilla. You stare at the gorilla; he stares back. Are your lives ...')
- 19:35, 7 April 2025 Partnering to Plant (hist) [13,168 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Seven Ways Churches Can Collaborate''' Church planting is one-half asking people for favors and one-half asking for money. I exaggerate, but not by much. Church plant...')
- 14:57, 7 April 2025 Desire Without Ceasing (hist) [9,199 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Longing Fuels a Life of Prayer''' <blockquote>This very desire is your prayer, and if your desire is continuous, your prayer is continuous too. The apostle meant ...')
- 14:43, 7 April 2025 Teach Me, Help Me, Thrill Me (hist) [8,114 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Guide to the Longest Psalm''' The Grand Canyon is spectacular and vast: 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and over a mile deep. Covering about 1,900 square miles...')
- 14:33, 7 April 2025 Do You Fight for Joy? (hist) [6,635 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Almost twenty years after writing what many would call my signature book, ''Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist'', I finally wrote the book I knew I had to ...')
- 14:25, 7 April 2025 Laugh Before Devils (hist) [7,229 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Once I had a friend who dated this woman. She was nice, as I recall her, smart and extremely studious. She had ambitions to be top of her class. Yet her drive to excel w...')
- 14:04, 7 April 2025 Wait on God While the Darkness Lasts (hist) [9,925 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}The landscape of college ministry has shifted dramatically over the past 25 years. But here in 2025, I’m still consistently receiving the same question that I asked as ...')
- 03:14, 7 April 2025 Start Asking God for More (hist) [13,744 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Four Reasons We Pray Less''' Praying has always been hard for Christians. I once heard John Stott say that prayer was his greatest struggle in the Christian life, and...')
- 03:06, 7 April 2025 Tough and Tender (hist) [6,892 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Pastors Follow the Good Shepherd''' Jesus, our chief Shepherd, is remarkably tough and remarkably tender — and often at times and in ways we don’t expect. We...')
- 03:00, 7 April 2025 Back When We Had Friends (hist) [10,866 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Why Brothers Still Need Brothers''' Men, do you remember when we had friends? Back when we first asked in our own way, and without shame, ''Will you be my friend?'' ...')
- 19:59, 5 April 2025 But (hist) [16,688 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote><b>Ephesians 2:1–9 </b><br><br>And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of...')
- 18:25, 31 March 2025 A Doctor’s Depression (hist) [8,151 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ===='''How God Became My Healer '''==== During my year in the ICU as I trained as a trauma surgeon, the threat of tragedy loomed daily. Every morning, I would tweak ve...')
- 01:14, 18 March 2025 Go Get Her (hist) [8,830 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''To Men Delaying Marriage''' On March 27, 1525, Wolfgang Reissenbusch served as a preceptor in the monastery of St. Anthony. This meant Mr. Reissenbusch had vowed to l...')
- 01:06, 18 March 2025 God Forms Us Through Failure (hist) [8,317 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Most of us love excellence and striving for perfection. We want our surgeon to be the best in the country. We want our professors to be at the top of their field. We want...')
- 02:47, 17 March 2025 Shepherding Kids Through the Loss of a Loved One (hist) [9,413 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}For weeks, our two kids practiced reciting verses for the National Bible Bee’s Proclaim Day. When they finally took the stage, their hands trembling and the high ceilin...')
- 02:31, 17 March 2025 Be Still and Wonder (hist) [9,028 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Two Habits for Hurried Souls''' Sometimes, the solution to our spiritual struggles is less spiritual than we imagined. Maybe you walk in a spiritual wilderness, affl...')
- 02:21, 17 March 2025 Is Your Christianity Too Quiet? (hist) [7,214 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Is your Christian life too private, too indoorsy? “You are the light of the world,” our Lord declares. “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:14). So...')
- 22:10, 16 March 2025 Grow Deep (hist) [7,794 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Word to Young Men''' You want your life to matter. Maybe you look back with regret at years of trifling or lusting or swearing or drinking. You’ve wasted so much ...')
- 21:03, 6 March 2025 Worship Where You Are (hist) [8,136 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Ways We Suffer Well''' Few chapters in Scripture have impacted me as much as 2 Chronicles 20. God has met me, often through tears, in this passage — a passage ...')
- 19:16, 3 March 2025 How is the statement "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him" true for those who won't be saved? (hist) [2,934 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ''' How is the statement "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him" true for those who won't be saved? ''' When I say "God is most glorified in us...')
- 17:29, 3 March 2025 Life Will Not Get Easier (hist) [7,147 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}There’s a lie we all want to believe — even against all available evidence. It trades on our God-given capacity for hope. It tempts even those with impeccable theolog...')
- 19:41, 11 February 2025 How do you keep your familiarity of the Bible from causing you to grow cold to it? (hist) [1,007 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ''' How do you keep your familiarity of the Bible from causing you to grow cold to it? ''' I pray Psalm 119:18 each time I go to the Bible: "Open my eyes that I may b...')
- 16:03, 9 January 2025 Honor Your (Elderly) Parents (hist) [7,645 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Adult Children ‘Make Some Return’''' Recently, I enjoyed reconnecting with a friend from college who is now sixty-something years old (like me) and who cares ...')
- 15:57, 9 January 2025 Outpray God’s Goodness (hist) [8,977 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}I wish I could always address God in prayer as Paul did: “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think . . .” (Ephesians 3:20). If ...')
- 17:50, 6 January 2025 Satisfy Me to the End (hist) [7,070 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Praying with Wisdom as We Age '''==== This summer, I began reviewing all my journals. As I write, I’m still plodding through the handwritten journals I kept ...')
- 20:58, 20 December 2024 The Quiet Strength of Godly Fear (hist) [9,089 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Lessons from the Life of Sarah''' History was repeating itself. As the king took Sarah’s trembling hand, leading her away from her husband and into yet another fore...')
- 03:27, 25 November 2024 How to Overlook an Offense (hist) [7,730 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense” (Proverbs 19:11). In moments of calm, the wise man’s counsel sounds so right, so sa...')
- 16:06, 23 November 2024 When Offenses Come (hist) [10,095 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Forgive and Move On''' “Can I get your number?” a woman from church asks you. “It would be great to get together sometime. I’ll reach out!” She doesn...')
- 15:56, 23 November 2024 When Your Heart Condemns You (hist) [9,526 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}The apostle John gives us a phrase full of angst when he writes, “whenever our heart condemns us . . .” (1 John 3:20). Has your heart ever condemned you; shut up your...')
- 15:45, 23 November 2024 Make the Most of Sunday Mornings (hist) [8,908 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Two Simple Changes''' ''Ah, Sunday.'' That majestic morning when my children awake to the aroma of eggs and bacon and fresh-squeezed orange juice. When they bound dow...')
- 15:33, 23 November 2024 God Calls the Weak to War (hist) [10,218 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Christian Strength of Disability''' The young man was fully engaged in worship: hands raised, eyes closed, mouth wide open in song, completely lost in the moment....')
- 15:21, 23 November 2024 Forget About Yourself (hist) [13,467 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Six Paths to Better Thoughts''' C.S. Lewis describes it as the cheerful hallmark of humility. Tim Keller calls it the doorway into freedom. John Piper names it as the...')
- 16:06, 19 September 2024 Peace Beyond Performance (hist) [7,430 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Unshakable Joy for the Ups and Downs''' Which is closer to the center of your life as a Christian: what you’re doing for God, or what God has already done for you t...')
- 15:58, 19 September 2024 Life Is Too Brief to Waste (hist) [6,191 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Learning to Number Our Days''' As I write, I’m sitting outside my home, basking in a verdant, cloudless midsummer day in Minnesota. The sun-drenched landscape aroun...')
- 15:46, 19 September 2024 Win Them with Dinner (hist) [10,758 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Practicing Hospitality in Post-Christian Places''' In 2015, the Supreme Court (in ''Obergefell v. Hodges'') voted to legalize so-called same-sex marriage in all fifty...')
- 15:12, 9 September 2024 The Marvelous Mundane (hist) [6,887 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Embracing the Slow Work of God''' The young mom is alone with her infant, covered in sweat, urine, and drool. Life feels unremarkable and repetitive. Another load of ...')
- 18:24, 9 August 2024 Your Church Needs You This Sunday (hist) [6,514 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Two Prayers to Prepare for Worship '''==== A pastor once shared with me how he often really feels when he heads into church on a Sunday: he wishes he was doing...')
- 18:11, 9 August 2024 Rejoicing over Judgment (hist) [8,081 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Why God’s Wrath Is Good News '''==== A couple of years ago, a friend and I were enjoying the view from a downtown hotel’s rooftop bar when we realized ther...')
- 15:59, 26 July 2024 What a World Ours Will Be (hist) [9,096 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Why the Universe Longs to Be New '''==== At the second coming of Christ, the people of God will see the risen King in his power and great glory. They will be c...')
- 20:10, 18 July 2024 All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying (hist) [9,957 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' What Saving Faith Sees in Christ '''==== When I talk about the nature of saving faith, I share the Protestant and Reformed zeal to magnify the majesty and glor...')
- 19:57, 18 July 2024 Five Fears of Old Age (hist) [14,475 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Finishing Our Race by Future Grace '''==== Dear older saint, I need to join you in the fight against the fears of aging, and to do so by faith in future grace....')
- 11:41, 5 July 2024 Life Is for Living (hist) [8,830 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} “Youth,” an old writer complained, “is wasted on the young.” Why hand the strongest draught of life to those who least know what to do with it? Why entrust brig...')
- 11:28, 5 July 2024 Earthly Loss Is Heavenly Gain (hist) [8,218 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' The Rewards of Faithful Suffering '''==== I feel helpless as I watch and wait with my friends. Friends with debilitating chronic pain who have no contact with...')
- 11:54, 14 June 2024 Better Than Our Bitter Thoughts (hist) [10,908 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info|The God of Surprising Goodness }}<br> What is the difference between those welcomed into heaven and those thrown into hell? Can we imagine a more relevant or urgent quest...')
- 11:52, 12 June 2024 Head of Every Head (hist) [10,284 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' How to Lead Like Jesus '''==== We’ve now heard plenty about bad heads. In a world of depravity, where even churches are led by recovering sinners, humans hav...')
- 11:51, 7 June 2024 Examine Yourself, Forget Yourself (hist) [11,321 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Help for the Overly Introspective '''==== To many, the idea of ''self-examination'' sounds about as enjoyable as standing before the mirror and slowly surveyin...')
- 11:33, 7 June 2024 How Can I Grow in Expressing Affection? (hist) [9,205 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''Audio Transcript''' ''Welcome back to a new week on this Monday. How do we overcome a lack of affection — a lack of expressed affection for God and expressed affe...')
- 11:38, 31 May 2024 See Through Enemy Eyes (hist) [9,631 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Expecting Temptation Before It Comes '''==== Fortresses have been lost through sheer lack of imagination. The general cannot see with his enemy’s eyes, antic...')
- 11:20, 31 May 2024 The Lost Son Who Never Left (hist) [11,933 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Imagining the Older Brother’s Return '''==== I have a story I want to share with you, based on another you likely know. Jesus tells the original in the fifte...')
- 11:45, 30 May 2024 Our Children Raise Us (hist) [6,786 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Lessons from the School of Parenting '''==== As moms and dads, the odds of being perfect parents are the same odds of being perfect human beings: nil. We’re...')
