Author Archive
Friday, February 18th, 2011
“From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East” by William Dalrymple
I read this book while flying to and from the Middle East. I highly recommend it for anyone who is concerned about the Christians of the East and their communal demise. The East is the birthplace of Christianity; imagine losing a living community of Christ-followers in that section of the world. In order to understand [...]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Written by my daughter, Maggie Hess Rogers:
Love Has anything just stopped you in your tracks? Life is just life, you’re doing your thing, yes a sunrise is pretty, but you are too busy trying not to spill coffee while driving to really stop and pause and spend time with God and thank him for it. I had this moment this summer [...]
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
HOW TO LIVE A RADICAL CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN FIVE EASY STEPS
Do you want to find yourself being a more radical witness to the goodness of the Kingdom of God here and now? Are you interested in being more effective in living for Jesus but don’t know how to go about it? Well, I have five easy steps you can take to do that. 1. Live [...]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Why we need Advent
The Church Year season of Advent is drawing to a close. We will move into the Twelve Days of Christmas soon. It struck me the other day that the reason we need to celebrate Advent instead of going full-blast into Christmas right after (or before) Thanksgiving is that our whole life is an Advent. Advent [...]
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
10,000 Hours
Supposedly, it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become really good at something. That means that 10,000 hours spent doing something bad or unhealthy or untrue or worthless is going to take a LOT of effort to reform. (Or a miracle, which I believe God gives us at times). This is why habits need to [...]
