Over the last couple of years I’ve had a number of fascinating conversations with homeless people. One frequent theme I hear is the problem of broken relationships. When I ask the homeless person I’m talking to whether or not they have family, they often respond that they do, but that […]
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It’s a sign of the times that I have to begin a post about an obvious truth – that men are to be providers and protectors – with a disclaimer: No, I am not saying that only men can be providers and protectors. Women can, and often do, fill that […]
“God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.” It’s hard for us to believe that the God of the universe concerns himself with the trivia […]
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3 Good question, isn’t it? If the foundations of law and order are destroyed, what can we, who like to think we are part of that group called “the righteous,” do? Well, one thing we can do is shore […]
I never knew my grandfather. He died years before I was born. But I do know that Sivert Reese took his time getting married. Grandpa Reese was twenty-eight when he married Marit Risse, recently arrived from Opdal, Norway, on his farm near Irene, South Dakota. I’m not sure if it […]
I’ve spent the last sixteen years of my life obeying Isaiah 1:17: “Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the cause of the widow.” I have done – and am doing – exactly what this passage tells us to do. Over the years, many of you have been following […]
“God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” Romans 2:24 Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve heard something I’ve never heard before on mainstream broadcast TV: the name “Jesus” used as a curse word…twice. For those of us who are Christians, this brazen willingness to express public […]
Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. – Jesus I’ve taken to ordering milk whenever a server at a restaurant shows up with a pretentious wine list. Take the waitress at a restaurant Patti and I visited while on vacation in […]
I know. No one cares whether or not I’m a citizen of Canada and that I have been all my life without knowing it. The point I was making in my last post – a point I thought was perfectly clear – was that it is possible for anyone to […]
I got the shock of my life the other day. I came across a website that said if one of my parents was born in Canada, then I’m automatically a Canadian citizen. After checking Canada’s official website, I discovered that it was indeed true. Turns out, my mother, Marguerite Reese, […]