May 23rd, 2007 | by Helen | published in Thoughts
This is my latest response in the newspaper dialog between me and Rev. Dean Lueking. It’s in the online Wednesday Journal already. I’m not sure whether it’s in the print edition today or not, since some submissions go online before they have room to run them in print.
In his most recent response to me [What [...]
April 27th, 2007 | by Helen | published in Thoughts
I ran across a transcript of Evel Knievel’s comments to Robert Schuller at his baptism on the Keep Believing Ministries blog.
I don’t remember ever reading or hearing a testimony so focused on feelings. For example, quoting from it:
Isn’t it a wonderful feeling? Isn’t it a wonderful feeling to say, I have a God that I [...]
April 24th, 2007 | by Helen | published in Thoughts
The author of this book, Dr. Ray Pritchard, is President of Keep Believing Ministries and host of the blog which lives at Keep Believing Ministries’ home page.
The subtitle of this book is “Protecting yourself against Satan’s plan to destroy your life”.
In my words, the point of the book is to help Christians lessen the [...]
April 17th, 2007 | by Helen | published in Thoughts
I found out how articulate and insightful Hemant was a little over a year ago, when I read the church reviews he wrote for Off The Map (the winning bidder in his ebay auction).
I’ve been looking forward to reading about Hemant’s ‘further adventures’ since I heard he was writing a book. I was pleased to [...]
April 13th, 2007 | by Helen | published in Thoughts
Last year I ran across a situation in which the pastor and founder of a large independent church resigned, after 28 years of leading it, when several men came forward and said he had inappropriately touched them. The pastor maintained his innocence; he said he was resigning because his credibility had been damaged. The elders [...]
April 6th, 2007 | by Helen | published in Thoughts
Here are my Good Friday thoughts…
I’m fascinated when people figure out different ways to do things, which, because they are unanticipated and unexpected, enable them to achieve more than if they had used more conventional popular methods. In other words, they find ways to ‘go under the radar’.
Taking the story of Jesus I was taught [...]
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