Christine's Blog – January 2015 Archive (16)

It happened again. The rearview mirror thing.

‘How’re you doing this cold morning?’ I asked my cabdriver. I couldn’t delay any conversation I hoped to have, as the ride was relatively short. ‘Oh, I’m fine,’ he said, as I noted his thick accent and very dark skin. ‘Where ‘you from?’ I asked. ‘Somalia,’ came his terse reply. Short on opportunity, but curious just the same, I cut right to it—‘so would you be a man of faith?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Muslim, perchance?’ I asked. And up came his right hand…

A Link in the Chain.

Someone told me a story about a young man who lived carelessly. One day, in biology class, he was looking through a microscope, watching certain organisms that you can actually see living and dying and begetting others in a moment of time. Something about it impacted him, and he rose from the microscope and announced, “Now I see it. I am a link in the chain, and I will not be a weak link any more!”

When I sat across from Lynn the other night in…

Life without Fear. 2 Timothy 1.7



This week I have been at Northwestern University taking a mediation class in order to earn a certification that I believe will prove beneficial in many ways. But can we tawk? As I looked around the room and listened to folks on Monday morning, I realized that more than half of my classmates were/are attorneys, and some of the early content made me begin to rethink my native intelligence. Nonetheless, as I have obviously continued on, and am…

Open or Closed?

While I live in San Clemente¹, I love having cause to travel to America’s big, older cities—in this case, Chicago, as I mentioned in a briefing earlier this week:…

When you want to reach for more … here’s how. (New Year’s, still!)

The enemy of more is satisfaction. One of my four children is hyper competitive when it comes to athletics. (Now all of them are competitive, and they come by that quite naturally, but one is over the top.) If I could bottle his drive and sell it, I would be rich! It has been so of Dylan since he was a toddler, and remains true at almost 20 years old. He taught himself to ride his little two-wheel bicycle because Daddy…

Passion is Compelling. John 7.37-39

I am praying for you, you know. Praying that at the start of this New Year, you will want more …more of God in your life ~ in all ways. Paul prayed for his beloved Ephesians, “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being…” concluding with, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be…

It’s a New Year … ‘got courage?

Are you courageous?  Hmmm… well, how do you know?…

WHAT IF …?



Yes . . . what if you did?



What if you really did want to grow?



What if you really did want to grow spiritually in 2015?



Any kind of growth requires training ~ the training that nets spiritual dividends most certainly would include Bible study and prayer, and should include worship of God, service, and giving. While some might stifle a yawn at the thought of Bible reading and prayer, I want to blow that notion right out of the water,…