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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 12:42, 5 December 2023 A Time for Courageous Love (hist) [10,736 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} The Christian grandmother, talking with me about her daughter and grandson, was heartbroken. As her daughter unveiled her new life, beliefs, and rules, this grandmothe...')
- 12:55, 1 December 2023 Comforting Lies About Suffering (hist) [8,999 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Comforting Lies About Suffering '''==== ''' How the Prosperity Gospel Hurts People ''' I’ve been told that suffering cannot be God’s will for me. I’ve b...')
- 13:11, 29 November 2023 ‘Oh Slay the Wicked’ (hist) [17,119 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '<p><span class="fck_mw_template">{{info}}</span> </p> <h4><b> How Christians Sing Curses </b></h4> <p>Maybe you’ve had this experience while reading the Bible. You turn to Psal...')
- 13:00, 28 November 2023 The Severe Kindness of Jesus (hist) [9,607 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Hearing Mercy in His Hard Words '''==== Jesus has a popular reputation with many as a gentle, lowly teacher and healer who calls the sick, the shamed, and the ...')
- 12:50, 28 November 2023 Marital Conflict for New Wives (hist) [6,415 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} The early months and years of marriage are a time of significant change. Marriage involves at least one or both people moving to join as husband and wife under one roof...')
- 12:42, 24 November 2023 Get Behind Me, Sluggard (hist) [9,920 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Four Lessons Against Laziness '''==== If you look deep inside yourself, you may notice, to your dismay, the presence of a singularly unattractive creature. You...')
- 20:02, 22 September 2023 A Faithful Man Who Can Find? (hist) [8,741 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info| A Faithful Man Who Can Find? }}<br> I first got to know the man who became my father-in-law when I began to date his beautiful, godly daughter. That was half his life ag...')
- 19:42, 13 September 2023 A Leader for the Long Haul (hist) [7,229 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ===='' The Legacy of Enduring Pastors ''===== Legacies are multigenerational. For good or evil, your influence has the potential to span generations, even eternity, im...')
- 20:04, 29 August 2023 That Kind of Happy (hist) [7,809 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''The Wide Eyes of a Psalm 1 Man ''' When I applied for seminary, I had the naive notion that I would graduate (after just four years) having essentially mastered the...')
- 19:11, 9 August 2023 More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed (hist) [8,661 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '' Commencement Address | Bethlehem College & Seminary | Minneapolis''')
- 19:12, 28 July 2023 Chapters of Mothering (hist) [7,981 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ''''' How Reading Shapes a Child ''''' Some milestones in our children’s lives stick with us. I cannot forget teaching our children to read — a pleasure that conti...')
- 19:46, 27 July 2023 Live for Days You Will Not See (hist) [10,369 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ==== The Beauty of Christian Legacy ==== Imagine that you receive a word from a trustworthy prophet. It begins hopefully enough: “You will live long and die in peace...')
- 20:12, 15 February 2023 Good Leaders Are Easy to Follow (hist) [8,702 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Shepherds Shape the Sheep''' If I let my 5-year-old have a can of Coke, a bag of Skittles, and half a dozen Oreos right before bed, I shouldn’t be surprised if ...')
- 20:06, 15 February 2023 Every Marriage Needs a Mission (hist) [9,840 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Three Steps for Husbands''' Our typical images of romantic, married love picture a couple facing each other, eyes locked in mutual affection. And for good reason. Ad...')
- 19:58, 15 February 2023 Beneath the Mountain of Smoke (hist) [8,838 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Recovering the Awe of Worship''' What happens every Sunday when the church gathers? We meet with God. Do such words still hold weight for you? Some of us arrive late...')
- 19:48, 15 February 2023 The Resilient Mother (hist) [7,489 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How We Bend Without Breaking''' Along the wooded trail behind my home, a birch tree arches in a graceful curve as it stretches across the pathway. It’s a veteran of...')
- 19:40, 15 February 2023 Friends Who Fell Away (hist) [9,172 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ''''When Apostasy Comes Close to Home''' The memories, on most days, seem better left forgotten. Never has remembering sweet Bible studies tasted so bitter. Flashbacks of late-ni...')
- 19:40, 3 January 2023 The Starving Eyes of Man (hist) [8,904 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Why We Ache to See Glory''' The eyes of man were made for glory. His soul hungers for something worth seeing. This world is a war of spectacles. Man is a watching cr...')
- 19:25, 3 January 2023 When Praying Hurts (hist) [7,469 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Go to God in Suffering''' My desire to pray when I’m suffering can swing wildly in a single day — and sometimes within the hour. Through the severe trials ...')
- 19:08, 3 January 2023 Born Between God and Man (hist) [6,975 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Welcoming Our Long-Awaited Priest''' “Noël, Noël, Noël, Noël, born is the King of Israel” is a glorious refrain from a much-beloved Christmas hymn. And of cou...')
- 19:01, 3 January 2023 The Pleasure of God in Ordinary Work (hist) [7,381 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}I wonder how many people in his day knew the apostle Paul as a guy who made and fixed tents. Surely many did. When he went to Corinth, he went to see Aquila and Priscilla...')
- 17:36, 3 January 2023 We Call Him ‘Father’ (hist) [8,443 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Privilege of Christian Prayer''' If you primarily think of God as your Father, and if you usually address God as ''Father'' when you pray, you have Jesus to thank...')
- 16:10, 9 December 2022 A Rest for Any Restlessness (hist) [8,341 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}If you could capture in a word what it feels like to live as a fallen human, far from Eden, what might you say? ''Sorrowful,'' perhaps, or ''broken''. ''Frustrating. Dark...')
- 15:58, 9 December 2022 How to Care for the Brokenhearted at Christmas (hist) [6,755 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}The more joys and sorrows I live through personally and see in those around me, the more convinced I am that Christmas — over any other season — tends to make life’...')
- 15:55, 9 December 2022 The Secret Failure of Many Leaders (hist) [9,383 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}They bought jeans already torn at the knees. The ambassadors from the great city left in haste to make peace with Joshua and his coming armies. But first, locals reported...')
- 04:35, 9 December 2022 Honor an Old Face (hist) [11,014 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Lost Art of Respecting Our Elders''' Moses, in the classic movie ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956), goes down to oversee the work of the Hebrew slaves. He does not ...')
- 19:18, 27 November 2022 How to Care for a Pastor (hist) [9,783 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Ways to Uplift Your Shepherds''' Like a viper from the bushes, the Amalek attacked Israel. The shores had not yet washed clean of Pharoah’s army, nor had the p...')
- 14:54, 21 November 2022 How to Fail a Wife (hist) [12,268 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Learning Marriage from a Bad Husband''' We might dismiss the first marriage as too extraordinary to be practically helpful. How could any ordinary sinful husband or w...')
- 14:35, 21 November 2022 How Do I Pray from the Misery of My Sin? (hist) [8,309 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Audio Transcript''' ''Welcome back to the podcast. We have been doing this podcast for almost a decade now. And over those ten years there have been some moving pasto...')
- 14:25, 21 November 2022 Can Christians Date Nonbelievers? (hist) [11,099 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Of all the Christians who start dating a nonbeliever, how many of them planned to do so? I suspect few Christians set out to intentionally date (much less marry) a nonbe...')
- 02:44, 21 November 2022 God Made the World for Worship (hist) [14,669 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings''' The ''individual'' human soul, rightly seeing the glory of Christ and rightly savoring the glory of Christ, is at the heart...')
- 02:24, 21 November 2022 The Embattled Pastor (hist) [9,476 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ' {{info}}'''How to Navigate Conflict and Criticism''' <blockquote>“Your church lacks community.”</blockquote> <blockquote>“You botched caring for me during my husband’s...')
- 02:10, 21 November 2022 How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners? (hist) [22,359 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Godward Life Conference''' I want to begin with a story that I hope encourages the younger people among us, putting within you a passion to do something significant w...')
- 01:44, 21 November 2022 Lead Me, O Lord (hist) [10,026 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Ten Prayers for Christian Leaders''' ''Pastor'' is a strange and difficult calling. It’s strange because, to use the biblical metaphor, a pastor is a sheep to whom ...')
- 15:43, 18 November 2022 Screen Sabbaths (hist) [10,985 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Modest Proposal for a Digital World''' A few years ago, a group of cognitive and behavioral psychologists took five hundred college students, split them into three ...')
- 01:36, 14 November 2022 Am I Ready for Ministry? (hist) [10,853 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Many a man has asked the question, “Am I called to pastoral ministry?” And many a wise leader has counseled him to place the matter upon the three-legged stool of asp...')
- 00:58, 14 November 2022 Why Don’t We Have Good Friends? (hist) [11,958 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}How many close friends do you have in your life today? Take a minute and count them. Do you have more or less than you did ten years ago? One recent study confirms what ...')
- 00:46, 14 November 2022 Can Cancer Be God’s Servant? (hist) [8,690 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''What I Saw in My Wife’s Last Years''' In March, my beloved wife, Nanci, lost her four-year battle with colon cancer. All 54 years I’ve known her, Nanci loved Jesu...')
- 22:31, 6 November 2022 The Indispensable Lives of Ordinary Christians (hist) [7,193 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}If your circumstances were changed into the physical realm, you might depict it this way. You sit in the waiting room of the hospital, mindful that your case is not urge...')
- 22:25, 6 November 2022 She Needs Truth (hist) [7,261 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Hard Words Serve Women''' As an adult, the famous preacher Charles Spurgeon remembered hearing his mother pray for him and his siblings like this: <blockquote>No...')
- 03:10, 28 October 2022 Messy, Late, and Happy (hist) [8,622 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Survive Sundays with Small Kids''' Almost everything about having a young family works against a standing multiple-hour commitment on Sunday mornings. Just to...')
- 17:24, 26 October 2022 Step One in Preparing to Suffer (hist) [7,119 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Audio Transcript''' ''On Monday we looked at the topic of suffering — in particular, the divine design behind suffering. What is God doing inside of us when trials ...')
- 15:02, 17 October 2022 Will My Spouse Be My Best Friend in Heaven? (hist) [8,854 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Audio Transcript''' ''Welcome back to the podcast on this Friday to close out the week. As you know, we get a lot of touching emails about marriage, like the one I’...')
- 14:34, 17 October 2022 How Do People Shipwreck Their Faith? (hist) [6,367 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Audio Transcript''' ''A new week begins on this fine Monday morning. Thank you for joining us. And the week begins with a humbling question about shipwrecking the fai...')
- 13:31, 14 October 2022 Friend, You Can Be Ready to Die (hist) [7,270 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Two Ways to Prepare Now''' Years ago I read somewhere that, during the Victorian era, people talked often about death, and sex was the taboo subject. By now we have f...')
- 20:46, 6 October 2022 Our Children Need to See Weakness (hist) [6,505 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}“Would you please, please come with me? I really want you to be there. All the other moms are going.” My daughter was pleading with me to volunteer at field day for ...')
- 00:10, 6 October 2022 Fathering Future Men (hist) [10,299 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Twelve Lessons from Four Decades''' We live in an era when it can be fashionable to be unsure what a man or woman is. It depends, the theory goes, on how you identify...')
- 20:59, 5 October 2022 Give Me More of God (hist) [9,974 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Why Spiritual Intimacy Can Feel Elusive''' Deep in the heart of every true disciple of Jesus is a deep longing for more of God. But what is this ''more'' we desire? W...')
- 20:51, 5 October 2022 Before You Begin to Mother (hist) [7,107 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Three Lessons for Young Moms''' By the time I was 21, I had been thoroughly inoculated against any threat of marriage by the wistful comments of my married friends: ...')
- 14:11, 20 September 2022 Be Comforted in Your Smallness (hist) [7,951 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Do you ever feel that you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? That the responsibilities, duties, and burdens of life press upon you with their almost ...')
