White Hats and Black Hats

White Hats and Black Hats

Share Recently my brother-in-law visited my house.  He’s a fan of old westerns.  So to be sociable I sat with him and watched an old Roy Rogers film.   It’s amazing that in this movie, the good guys really did wear white hats and the bad guys wore black hats. It made...
How to Be a Good Listener

How to Be a Good Listener

Share I was working on an online class for school and I needed a video on being a good listener. I searched YouTube for something that related listening to the Christian life, so I  typed into the search bar “Christian Listening.”  To my surprise, my...
Soul Friendships

Soul Friendships

Share One issue that often comes up in Spiritual direction is the shallowness of friendships in church. Most Christians I know have intimacy issues with God and with His people. A casual internet search on Christian friendship revealed some shocking ideas about...
The Challenge of living Together

The Challenge of living Together

Share Evangelist Dwight L. Moody once ate at a country inn where one of the patrons tried to engage him in a theological argument.  The man said that he was a Christian, but that he did not believe in going to church.  After all, isn’t one’s religion a personal...
Self and Community

Self and Community

Share John Calvin wrote in his Institutes of the Christian Faith: “Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and...