Category: walk by faith
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Getting creative
What an interesting time we live in. Just a few weeks ago, Corona was a bottle of beer with a slice of lime peeking out of it, and I would have guessed COVID-19 was a distant planet just discovered that might support life. Now it’s a virus that is threatening life for some, and totally…
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Overcoming fear
How do we eliminate fear? By taking charge of our situation. By doing something instead of nothing. The two servants who invested the money the Master entrusted to them were not afraid (Matthew 25:14-28). If they had any fear at all, it was covered up by their activity. They knew their master was exacting, so…
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Bringing in the Christmas tree
Inquiring minds want to know. If it took cutting up my dry Christmas tree with a chainsaw to get it out of the house, how did I get it in? Enough people asked me the question to indicate there were most likely many more of you who thought it. So I figured it deserved an…
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9 boxes
Well, Christmas 2019 is finally history at the Fischer household. Christmas 2019 is now closed up tightly in boxes on our front porch. Nine boxes, to be exact. Hard to believe all that beauty and all those memories can scrunch down into 9 boxes and sit there so quietly … secretly … carefully concealing everything…
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When eternity breaks in on us
It’s impossible to live near L.A. as someone who writes every day, and not write something about Kobe Bryant this morning. You would have to be an alien who just landed on this planet to not know what went on 24 hours ago here and is dominating almost everyone’s mind. A helicopter crashed into the…
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A salty dog
Salty Dog – a cocktail drink originally with gin, grapefruit juice and salt on the rim. Salty Dog – a nickname for an ornery sailor who has spent much of his or her life aboard a ship at sea. “Arrrrr.” Being the salt of the earth could mean a lot of things. No one is…
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Re-writing the rules of leadership
Ron is not perfect, and this is not only common knowledge, but one of the main reasons why he is such a good mentor. Leaders are naturally strong personalities and they’re going to butt heads with other strong individuals around them; it comes with the territory. And the temptation among leaders is the need to…
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Pilgrimage
There was no question. As soon as I found out Ron Ritchie was under hospice care at home, and his sons had been called in, I had to go. It was not a nice thing to do; it was a requirement. Not fully knowing why at the time, I just knew I had to be…
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Faith more real than faith
It was most likely my last time to see Ron Ritchie. His body is shutting down. They are not trying to treat the cancer, only to keep him comfortable, which they are doing. As of yesterday, at least, he’s in no pain. A few days ago, he slept for six days. But he was surprisingly…
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Swing low, sweet chariot
Dark Horse by John Fischer He’s a dark horse in the nighttime Heading straight for the enemy camp And he has no fear ‘cause his eye is clear Throwing light like a burning lamp And maybe sometime at the right time You may see him galloping by A simple man with a single plan And…
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Weakness on display
I don’t want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or hear in my message. (2 Corinthians 12:6) Upon further review, it has come to my attention that the interpretation of this statement in 2 Corinthians 12:6 I made yesterday may have led to some unintended conclusions. I want…
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A pock on the skyline
I looked at my phone this morning and saw “Wednesday, September 11” right under the time, and thought, “Oh my goodness, it’s 9/11.” I guess I knew it was coming — I knew it was somewhere in the vicinity — I had heard rumors, but it hadn’t really registered. On the one hand, it’s just…
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“Could”s and “should”s
When teams that could win face teams that should win, what usually happens? The teams that could win, win. That’s because they are playing with something extra. They are already above expectations just to be in the same arena with the team that should win, so they have nothing to lose.
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Close to you
On the day that you were born the angels got together And decided to create a dream come true So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair And golden starlight in your eyes of blue Remember this one by the Carpenters? It should be a theme song for Christians as a reminder of how we…
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Countercultural faith
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. – Francis Schaeffer You have been strategically placed right where you are for one reason: to bring the kingdom of God to your corner of the world. It matters not where…
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Two wills and a destiny
So I woke up in Phoenix this morning but there’s no baseball in sight, unless the Diamondbacks are home tonight. But I wouldn’t know that because I am not here for baseball, I’m here for my son, Chandler. He has found a technical school he wants to attend here that will certify him to work…
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‘Thank you’ as a way of life
“Thank you.” No more valuable words were ever spoken. So simple, yet so profound. Marti recently met for lunch with a well-known author and researcher who began their conversation by thanking her. Marti recalls being completely unsettled by this. The surprising thing is that she doesn’t even remember what he thanked her for now —…
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‘Angels’ Skaggs dies at 27’
How does this happen? How does a 27-year-old healthy athlete just die overnight? Tyler Skaggs, starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Texas yesterday morning. Nothing but questions remain. The police say no foul play or suicide is suspected. It’s a shocker.
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Remember the fire
Nearly all of us will go through things in our lives that have the potential of destroying us but they don’t. We survive, we move on, we grow stronger. What’s more those intense times help create a quality of endurance in us that can help with the everyday stresses of life.