Though it’s been a busy week with our Vital Signs Ministries responsibilities, prepping for three speaking engagements, trying to keep up with the lawn and the training for our July 5 mountain adventure, and enduring the regimens prior to a dentist appointment and a colonoscopy (yipes!), I still have a Top 5 for you. Check…
Two important Vital Signs Ministries events are on their way, representing opportunities for spiritual challenge, effective witness, and stimulating fellowship. They are… 1) On June 20 there will be 2 letter-writing parties held at the Hartford home. One meeting is a morning brunch from 10-11:30. And then our regular evening P.A.L. Night will be from…
When expressing your alarm at the dire deterioration of Western culture, have you ever heard another person (including fellow Christians) protest your pessimism with something like this, “Hey, don’t go overboard. We live in a fallen world and you can always find bad news if you’re going to go out looking for it. Believe me,…
Yes, the news from the culture wars gets more grim by the day. And yet, the Christian’s responsibility (better put, opportunity) remains the same; namely, to “shine as lights in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation.” Indeed, the final entry in this week’s Top 5 is a Vital Signs Blog post I wrote…
Rather than considering the Christian life an inevitable movement between highs and lows, the far healthier perspective (that is, the one that is more biblically-centered) is to consider the Christian life an ongoing pilgrimage in which our hand must always hold fast to the hand of our Lord as He lovingly, unerringly leads us to…
This very challenging week has included a quick trip to Wichita to see my little sister Sherry who is suffering from severe dementia, and then discovering a friend in such distress that we had to call the rescue squad and then spend the day with her in the hospital. Alas, the sadness and difficulty of…
Our “When Swing Was King” audiences are always enthusiastic in their praise of the program and, with the social graces that mark that generation so much more than those that are following them, they are very expressive of their appreciation. And we never tire of hearing their compliments and thanks nor the stories that the…
Among the Scriptures I’ve been studying, thinking about, and using in my prayers of intercession is this Psalm 84:11. “For the Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord gives grace and glory. No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” (NASB) How wondrous and sweet is that promise. Imagine,…
What a week, huh? For instance, there were those Hawaii tourists who drove straight into a boat harbor by following their GPS directions. The good news is that they were rescued and no one was seriously hurt. The bad news is that Western culture, following the crazy political-correctness that is the left’s version of GPS,…
