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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 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...')
- 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...')
