Rona hadn’t been feeling herself all day. She was usually quite active but today something was off. “All day long, I had ‘heavy arms’,” she says. A retired nurse, she knew that women experienced different symptoms but having a heart attack was the furthest thing from her mind. However, at midnight when she started to have chest pain and shortness of breath, her husband Ray … [Read more...] about MedWatch
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Generosity: Part 3, Generosity leads to joy
Rick Warren, in his book The Purpose Driven Life said, “it’s not about you” and while I agree that it’s not about us, I also believe that almost all of the time, when God wants us to do something, it benefits us. We may not be able to see it, but it’s usually there. I won’t rule out that the odd time He might ask us to do something solely for the benefit of someone … [Read more...] about Generosity: Part 3, Generosity leads to joy
Generosity, Part 2: Love leads to generosity
Generosity Part 1: Love love Love leads to generosity. That makes sense, doesn’t it? It certainly does to me. Imagine your kids or your spouse or anyone else you love. Don’t you just want to give them good stuff? To put it more biblically, if your son asks for bread, would you give him a stone instead? I don’t think it’s just me, I think that almost all of us tend to be … [Read more...] about Generosity, Part 2: Love leads to generosity
Generosity
Part 1: Love love It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote about how I feared that those of us who write about Christian money matters all too often focus on the “shoulds” or the “oughts”. That we provoke and admonish others to give more, when instead, we should perhaps spend more time inviting people along with us on a journey to a better way. I hope to remedy that in the … [Read more...] about Generosity
Being Human: Abortion and the Church
The philia and agape action of the Church essentially curbed abortion and infanticide up to our own era, more or less to the early 1960s. During the late twentieth century, a humanistic worldview and situational ethics eroded the Judeo-Christian base for moral absolutes. Out went the sacredness (the intrinsic value) of human life. Today, preborn infants, … [Read more...] about Being Human: Abortion and the Church