To Forgive And Forget
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 1952 When the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting occurred last year, there was a lot of talk about the…
Freedom From A Wounded Heart
On January 13-15 the Freedom From a Wounded Heart Seminar was presented in Ohio. Over 120 people participated in the three-evening event. We live in a culture full of wounded people. So many of these…
A Woman After God’s Own Heart?
I have been meditating on what God says about King David. God said that David was a man after God’s own heart. If you do a study of David’s life you will find out that…
Jesus Coming In The Air
You are in your buggy and driving home, thinking about all the things that are going on in your world, when suddenly a sound unlike any you’ve ever heard, fills the air. The sound is…
Be Extraordinary, Not Ordinary
Paul was a man who was used by God to do extraordinary things, but did you know that he did not start out that way? Believe it or not his name was Saul, and he…
Coach at loss over wins
Part of his childhood was spent without electricity or running water, and his family traveled to town each week by horse and buggy. In fact, the first time Leroy Troyer rode in a car he…
Portrait of a young Amish man: a world apart from “Englishness”
Jacob Stoltzfus is in his final year of formal education, and it shows. His bright eyes and smile exude the confidence of a pupil who has mastered all that his school has to offer him,…
When Hurt By Someone Close to You
Recently, I was deeply hurt by someone close to me: My immediate reaction was anger. Then grief. Then disappointment. And then wounded pride. I had expected so much more in the relationship! And because I…
Learning To “Wait” On The Lord
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they…
It’s Hard To Be A Leader If You’re Addicted To Anger
(James 3:7-8) For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it…