Global Food Crisis Day.   In partnership with radio stations, media, churches and bloggers, Compassion International is working to spread the word about the Global Food Crisis.  We hope to raise both awareness and funds to feed those who are most critically impact...

I don't have a picture to show, but Amanueal is our latest sponsored child.  He is 9 years old and living in Ethiopia.  While both of our names are on all of our sponsorships, I write to the girls, who have always been considered my sponsored children.  Bruce ...

A common theme in our church says that "We are blessed to be a blessing."  Our lead pastor, Glen Elliott, preached again, this morning, about being blessed.  So often, when someone says, "I've been blessed," or "God has really blessed me," the person is ...

My cousin Paul sent me a link to this Canadian organization, so I've been looking at the information on each of the women involved in it.  The goal of one of the founders:  "To create a Canada where demand for abortion dwindles and decreases until there is none left, not b...

Compassion friend Juli recently added a post titled "Leave some for the poor," over at Sheep Droppings, and she really got my mind to whirring.  You should read her post, and when you do, you need to take a really good look at the faces of the children holding the plates.  I...

Back in 2003, Dr. Charles Swindoll published another of many books, this one titled The Grace Awakening.  I read the book not long after it had come out, and I learned more about living in grace, as opposed to the law, than I had learned before.  I had come far in conceptual understandin...

Title:  Billy: The Untold Story of a Young Billy Graham and the Test of Faith That Almost Changed Everything Authors:  William Paul McKay and Ken AbrahamPublished by Thomas Nelson, 2008264 pages Billy is an unauthorized, true account of young Billy Graham, picking up when he is abo...

One of those self-defeating things Christians sometimes fall into is the pressure, mostly perceived in error, to be always up , always fantastic!  Perish the thought that other people, especially other Christians, would know that, sometimes, we're about as far from fantastic! as one human ...

I know God can heal the sick.  I've experienced it, myself, and know of many other examples.  I also know He doesn't always do that.  I believe that, when He doesn't heal, He does have a reason, although we might never know what it is, in this life...or...

I read this on the Doctor Is In blog.  It's part of an excerpt from"An Election About the Nature of the Church," an article by Richard Neuhaus.  Neuhaus is writing a book about our "American Babylon," and I may want to read that, when it comes out (possibly next s...