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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 01:14, 18 March 2025 Go Get Her (hist) [8,830 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''To Men Delaying Marriage''' On March 27, 1525, Wolfgang Reissenbusch served as a preceptor in the monastery of St. Anthony. This meant Mr. Reissenbusch had vowed to l...')
- 01:06, 18 March 2025 God Forms Us Through Failure (hist) [8,317 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Most of us love excellence and striving for perfection. We want our surgeon to be the best in the country. We want our professors to be at the top of their field. We want...')
- 02:47, 17 March 2025 Shepherding Kids Through the Loss of a Loved One (hist) [9,413 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}For weeks, our two kids practiced reciting verses for the National Bible Bee’s Proclaim Day. When they finally took the stage, their hands trembling and the high ceilin...')
- 02:31, 17 March 2025 Be Still and Wonder (hist) [9,028 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Two Habits for Hurried Souls''' Sometimes, the solution to our spiritual struggles is less spiritual than we imagined. Maybe you walk in a spiritual wilderness, affl...')
- 02:21, 17 March 2025 Is Your Christianity Too Quiet? (hist) [7,214 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Is your Christian life too private, too indoorsy? “You are the light of the world,” our Lord declares. “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:14). So...')
- 22:10, 16 March 2025 Grow Deep (hist) [7,794 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Word to Young Men''' You want your life to matter. Maybe you look back with regret at years of trifling or lusting or swearing or drinking. You’ve wasted so much ...')
- 21:03, 6 March 2025 Worship Where You Are (hist) [8,136 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Ways We Suffer Well''' Few chapters in Scripture have impacted me as much as 2 Chronicles 20. God has met me, often through tears, in this passage — a passage ...')
- 19:16, 3 March 2025 How is the statement "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him" true for those who won't be saved? (hist) [2,934 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ''' How is the statement "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him" true for those who won't be saved? ''' When I say "God is most glorified in us...')
- 17:29, 3 March 2025 Life Will Not Get Easier (hist) [7,147 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}There’s a lie we all want to believe — even against all available evidence. It trades on our God-given capacity for hope. It tempts even those with impeccable theolog...')
- 19:41, 11 February 2025 How do you keep your familiarity of the Bible from causing you to grow cold to it? (hist) [1,007 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ''' How do you keep your familiarity of the Bible from causing you to grow cold to it? ''' I pray Psalm 119:18 each time I go to the Bible: "Open my eyes that I may b...')
- 16:03, 9 January 2025 Honor Your (Elderly) Parents (hist) [7,645 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Adult Children ‘Make Some Return’''' Recently, I enjoyed reconnecting with a friend from college who is now sixty-something years old (like me) and who cares ...')
- 15:57, 9 January 2025 Outpray God’s Goodness (hist) [8,977 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}I wish I could always address God in prayer as Paul did: “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think . . .” (Ephesians 3:20). If ...')
- 17:50, 6 January 2025 Satisfy Me to the End (hist) [7,070 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Praying with Wisdom as We Age '''==== This summer, I began reviewing all my journals. As I write, I’m still plodding through the handwritten journals I kept ...')
- 20:58, 20 December 2024 The Quiet Strength of Godly Fear (hist) [9,089 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Lessons from the Life of Sarah''' History was repeating itself. As the king took Sarah’s trembling hand, leading her away from her husband and into yet another fore...')
- 03:27, 25 November 2024 How to Overlook an Offense (hist) [7,730 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense” (Proverbs 19:11). In moments of calm, the wise man’s counsel sounds so right, so sa...')
- 16:06, 23 November 2024 When Offenses Come (hist) [10,095 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Forgive and Move On''' “Can I get your number?” a woman from church asks you. “It would be great to get together sometime. I’ll reach out!” She doesn...')
- 15:56, 23 November 2024 When Your Heart Condemns You (hist) [9,526 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}The apostle John gives us a phrase full of angst when he writes, “whenever our heart condemns us . . .” (1 John 3:20). Has your heart ever condemned you; shut up your...')
- 15:45, 23 November 2024 Make the Most of Sunday Mornings (hist) [8,908 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Two Simple Changes''' ''Ah, Sunday.'' That majestic morning when my children awake to the aroma of eggs and bacon and fresh-squeezed orange juice. When they bound dow...')
- 15:33, 23 November 2024 God Calls the Weak to War (hist) [10,218 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Christian Strength of Disability''' The young man was fully engaged in worship: hands raised, eyes closed, mouth wide open in song, completely lost in the moment....')
- 15:21, 23 November 2024 Forget About Yourself (hist) [13,467 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Six Paths to Better Thoughts''' C.S. Lewis describes it as the cheerful hallmark of humility. Tim Keller calls it the doorway into freedom. John Piper names it as the...')
- 16:06, 19 September 2024 Peace Beyond Performance (hist) [7,430 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Unshakable Joy for the Ups and Downs''' Which is closer to the center of your life as a Christian: what you’re doing for God, or what God has already done for you t...')
- 15:58, 19 September 2024 Life Is Too Brief to Waste (hist) [6,191 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Learning to Number Our Days''' As I write, I’m sitting outside my home, basking in a verdant, cloudless midsummer day in Minnesota. The sun-drenched landscape aroun...')
- 15:46, 19 September 2024 Win Them with Dinner (hist) [10,758 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Practicing Hospitality in Post-Christian Places''' In 2015, the Supreme Court (in ''Obergefell v. Hodges'') voted to legalize so-called same-sex marriage in all fifty...')
- 15:12, 9 September 2024 The Marvelous Mundane (hist) [6,887 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Embracing the Slow Work of God''' The young mom is alone with her infant, covered in sweat, urine, and drool. Life feels unremarkable and repetitive. Another load of ...')
- 18:24, 9 August 2024 Your Church Needs You This Sunday (hist) [6,514 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Two Prayers to Prepare for Worship '''==== A pastor once shared with me how he often really feels when he heads into church on a Sunday: he wishes he was doing...')
- 18:11, 9 August 2024 Rejoicing over Judgment (hist) [8,081 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Why God’s Wrath Is Good News '''==== A couple of years ago, a friend and I were enjoying the view from a downtown hotel’s rooftop bar when we realized ther...')
- 15:59, 26 July 2024 What a World Ours Will Be (hist) [9,096 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Why the Universe Longs to Be New '''==== At the second coming of Christ, the people of God will see the risen King in his power and great glory. They will be c...')
- 20:10, 18 July 2024 All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying (hist) [9,957 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' What Saving Faith Sees in Christ '''==== When I talk about the nature of saving faith, I share the Protestant and Reformed zeal to magnify the majesty and glor...')
- 19:57, 18 July 2024 Five Fears of Old Age (hist) [14,475 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Finishing Our Race by Future Grace '''==== Dear older saint, I need to join you in the fight against the fears of aging, and to do so by faith in future grace....')
- 11:41, 5 July 2024 Life Is for Living (hist) [8,830 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} “Youth,” an old writer complained, “is wasted on the young.” Why hand the strongest draught of life to those who least know what to do with it? Why entrust brig...')
- 11:28, 5 July 2024 Earthly Loss Is Heavenly Gain (hist) [8,218 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' The Rewards of Faithful Suffering '''==== I feel helpless as I watch and wait with my friends. Friends with debilitating chronic pain who have no contact with...')
- 11:54, 14 June 2024 Better Than Our Bitter Thoughts (hist) [10,908 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info|The God of Surprising Goodness }}<br> What is the difference between those welcomed into heaven and those thrown into hell? Can we imagine a more relevant or urgent quest...')
- 11:52, 12 June 2024 Head of Every Head (hist) [10,284 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' How to Lead Like Jesus '''==== We’ve now heard plenty about bad heads. In a world of depravity, where even churches are led by recovering sinners, humans hav...')
- 11:51, 7 June 2024 Examine Yourself, Forget Yourself (hist) [11,321 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Help for the Overly Introspective '''==== To many, the idea of ''self-examination'' sounds about as enjoyable as standing before the mirror and slowly surveyin...')
- 11:33, 7 June 2024 How Can I Grow in Expressing Affection? (hist) [9,205 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''Audio Transcript''' ''Welcome back to a new week on this Monday. How do we overcome a lack of affection — a lack of expressed affection for God and expressed affe...')
- 11:38, 31 May 2024 See Through Enemy Eyes (hist) [9,631 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Expecting Temptation Before It Comes '''==== Fortresses have been lost through sheer lack of imagination. The general cannot see with his enemy’s eyes, antic...')
- 11:20, 31 May 2024 The Lost Son Who Never Left (hist) [11,933 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Imagining the Older Brother’s Return '''==== I have a story I want to share with you, based on another you likely know. Jesus tells the original in the fifte...')
- 11:45, 30 May 2024 Our Children Raise Us (hist) [6,786 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Lessons from the School of Parenting '''==== As moms and dads, the odds of being perfect parents are the same odds of being perfect human beings: nil. We’re...')
- 11:37, 30 May 2024 Mom’s Role in Raising Boys (hist) [9,251 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''Audio Transcript''' ''Happy day after Mother’s Day to all the moms listening in. Thanks for listening to the podcast. We’re often asked parenting questions. You...')
- 11:19, 24 May 2024 How to Help a Child Pray (hist) [9,807 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} One afternoon, when my son Nathan was six, he announced that he had prayed and asked God to bring his friend Asa over to our house to play. I was tempted to call Asa’...')
- 11:28, 17 May 2024 Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless (hist) [10,619 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''Audio Transcript''' ''Welcome back to another week on the Ask Pastor John podcast. In our Bible reading this week, we’re in the thick of it, reading through Levit...')
- 11:23, 16 May 2024 To War, to Christ, to Glory (hist) [9,592 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} What assassin better cloaks himself than Satan? He is a rumor whispered, a rustling of the bush, a cutthroat who leaves no witnesses. Everywhere he devastates, yet, sel...')
- 11:23, 3 May 2024 Life Beneath a Sovereign Lord (hist) [9,773 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' How His Power Unleashes Us '''==== Some truths about God we receive into our minds as we might receive a houseguest, expecting them to behave nicely and genera...')
- 11:59, 29 April 2024 The Unimpressive Path to Immortality (hist) [11,226 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} I knew a man who walked away from Jesus because he did not know what to do on Friday nights. When unbelieving, he knew exactly what to do. As a Christian, he wasn’t s...')
- 11:35, 26 April 2024 When Elders Disagree (hist) [9,773 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info|When Elders Disagree}}<br> ====''' A Pathway for Pastoral Conflicts '''==== How should fellow elders of the same church navigate dissent, discord, and differences? In th...')
- 11:28, 26 April 2024 Be Ready to Speak of Jesus (hist) [9,454 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Evangelism as Spiritual Warfare '''==== On my desk sits a book with a dark image on its cover: a Christian soldier stands alone, surrounded by spiritual enemie...')
- 11:59, 25 April 2024 No Suffering Is Unseen (hist) [8,102 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Why Our Secret Pain Really Matters '''==== What is the point of suffering in obscurity? That question haunted me for years. I wondered if there was any purpos...')
- 13:04, 12 December 2023 Rediscovering the Joy of Writing (hist) [15,560 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Six Lessons for a Lifelong Habit '''==== Once upon a time, you loved to write. Maybe as a child you spent hours in your room, scribbling imaginative stories. O...')
- 13:03, 6 December 2023 ‘Just Not Feeling It’ (hist) [10,665 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info|‘Just Not Feeling It’}}<br> ====''' How Routine Awakens Devotion '''==== “Not feeling like it.” In the daily pursuit of Christ, I fear no phrase has hindered me ...')
- 12:55, 5 December 2023 Habits of Grit (hist) [11,201 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} ====''' Athletics, Grace, and the Christian Work Ethic '''==== Not many of us are farmers. Not anymore. And relatively few of us have served as soldiers in combat. But...')
