August 2024 Blog Posts (16)

Listen along here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/201b5142/incomparable-82924

He was wearing Dodger blue--his shirt and even his L.A. baseball cap--you know that deep, rich royal blue? It was an easy conversation starter to talk about my home state, and exchange some light banter. [Hey, are you friendly? Do you strike up pleasant conversations…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/45ec3349/what-a-woman-wants-what-a-man-wants-no-what-god-wants-august-27-2024

For decades now, I have taught the Bible—to men, women, and children—young and old, high school athletes and homeless folks…on the beaches of Southern California, along the Sea of Galilee, in Ephesus, on…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/31f69987/without-truth-we-are-rudderless

'Don't you know you are just preaching to the choir?' she said across the miles. 'Most of us already believe what you are writing...I don't mean to be hurtful, but don't you think you're wasting your time?'

I knew she meant well. Most of the people…

Listen along here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1a6c0447/everything-hinges-on-this-one-thing-82224

People are looking for substance, looking for fulfillment, something to believe in, something that will satisfy. People are looking for what we have: Truth.

Take Jessie on a cross-country…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1cdf703f/god-is-in-your-story-all-because-someone-asked-me-82024

Because Someone Asked Me.

Several days ago, I was in Oklahoma and had the privilege of addressing a room full of Christians interested in leading others to know God more.  I opened my session with a…

Listen along here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1e373d5e/these-are-the-days-august-18-2024

Do you think it would have been easier for you to trust in Jesus if you lived in the first century? Would you more readily have believed that Jesus was the Son of God if you saw him do a miracle with your own eyes, instead of reading someone else’s account of…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/26127170/put-your-glasses-on-august-15-2024

People are anxious, casting about - yet so many of us are going it on our own, not turning to God. Why? Conversations are telling -- two in this Morning Briefing, and they provide a framework for us.

Let's go back to my exchange with my gym…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/24a35b8b/when-truth-becomes-personal-81324

This Morning Briefing comes on the heels of a casual conversation in which truth was defined by my gym friend as 'whatever I believe to be true.' [What is your Truth?…

Listen along here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/45bf13d6/what-is-your-truth-august-11-2024

So this happened on Friday . . . 

We had exchanged a few words at the gym before, enough that I knew his name. On this morning, Michael had a tee shirt with large letters: "I'm voting for Kamala," and a picture of her…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/2ce50a1c/faith-vs-trust-8824

What is the difference between faith and trust?

One of the things I love about reading the Bible is rediscovering people or events of which I have read before but suddenly see through a brand new lens. While the Bible does not change,…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1f27c782/rest-more-than-a-four-letter-word-august-6-2024

Need a Little Rest? 

One time as I was nearing the Shepherd’s Fields in Bethlehem, a young boy with a little lamb in his arms approached me. Young animals undo me, and I was immediately…

in my last post, i talked about something seen on social media that ended with the words: this is what a real Christian sounds like

but i went on to explain a little about how that statement (in that context) was wrong.

It reminds me of a time i finished watching "hacksaw ridge" at my sister's house (the movie with the capable andrew garfield as an SDA* pacifist), wherein as the credits rolled and the music swelled on an emotional note demonstrating the lengths one man would go…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/25308700/ive-got-a-mind-shift-for-you-8424

It was about 4.30 on a Tuesday afternoon and I was pulling into my parents' long driveway in the Bay Area with Matthew and Amy, who were quite small. Suddenly, everything started shifting, eerily shaking; we could feel it even in my big ol' Chevy. Telephone wires were…

first: i was minding my business when in passing i saw this 

well, having met him at a book signing and hearing so many great stories about how he spent his time after his presidency, i was endeared to him: greatly (he was before our time, and with maturity came disillusionment in politics, and so i clung to this idea of a passed time of greater men with more integrity and…

Listen here:  https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/e34e97bd/victorious-peace-8124

From making sense of life¹, emerged the good and right motivation to be an overcomer, rather than just a survivor …

  whether in the throes of a difficult divorce,

    serious prolonged…

Science continues to show up for Christ in a way churchgoers cannot. And for all their alleged worship and idolization of facts, findings, evidence, logic, and reasoning, atheists and others continue to ignore the truth mounting in front of them. Alas, we are all on our own journey.…