Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room
Are you counting down the days before Christmas? Whether we use a wall calendar with openings for each day or read a daily Bible verse to prepare for the celebration…
Are you counting down the days before Christmas? Whether we use a wall calendar with openings for each day or read a daily Bible verse to prepare for the celebration…
God’s specialty is rearranging the ashes of our disappointments, despair, and dismay into something beautiful. He takes our mess and changes it into His message. A tangible, historical illustration of…
I’ve always been a tomboy. It’s no wonder I chose the college major of ‘Recreation Administration with a Camp Emphasis,’ hoping to one day work as a camp director. Needless…
“We are all products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it,” said Pastor Rick Warren, best-selling author of The Purpose-Driven Life. When we become Christians,…
A loud crash woke me up from a deep sleep. I opened my eyes, sat up and squinting, tried to sort through the all-encompassing shadows. As if blinking my eyes…
I’ve got remember to tell Paul, I thought. My daughter-in-law Megan’s face glowed, was great with child, in her last trimester. I listened intently as she excitedly explained the preparations for the baby’s birth. And then it dawned on me, oh yeah, Paul isn’t here; he’s in heaven with Jesus. October 17, 2009 was the day Paul was promoted to heaven, the day everything changed.
Today would have been Pastor Paul's 59th birthday. How will I remember his life on this, another one of his birthdays? It's the anniversary of the birth of Pastor Paul Giesbrecht. I’ve decided to spend the rest of my life remembering.
[Tweet "“I wish I could stand on a busy street corner and beg people to give me all their wasted hours.”"]Wouldn’t it be great if we could stock up the…
We will meet again. Soon, and very soon. Today is April 29, 2021, the sixty-fourth birthday of Paul Eugene Giesbrecht. But it’s our eleventh year to celebrate his birthday on this…
The COVID19 Choice Chaos. Changes. Challenges. In addition to figuring out life in quarantine, we’ve made unprecedented decisions about how to spend our time as we “stay safe, stay home.”…
Martin Luther King Day…More Than Another Day Off
Today is a National Holiday. It’s Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday. For many of us, today is a national holiday. What’s the big deal – it’s Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday. For some it might be irritating, banks are closed and mail is not delivered, even our garbage men have the day off. Maybe there’s something we should notice about why this day is important to memorialize. Martin Luther King Jr is most noted for his I Had a Dream speech. What made Martin Luther King, Jr’s I Had A Dream speech historical and memorable? Here’s the transcript: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
(for more on Martin Luther King’s influence on our culture and how you can be part of
praying further influence, read on…)