Shooting Over the Horizon

One generation shall commend Your works to another (Ps 145:4).
~Biblical Mentoring~

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  • Joyfulness and Gladness in the Time of Prosperity

    God has been faithful to teach us many, many things during our ten-year trial (see post).  There are three who share in our family business – Dana, his dad, and his brother, Larry.  It has been an unforeseen blessing that… Continue reading

  • The God-Shaped Hole

    There are actually two God-designed holes which the soul longs to have filled – one, a God-shaped hole; the second, an eternity-shaped hole. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ “You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless, until… Continue reading

  • Life, Death, and Life After Death

    Folks don’t often make death a ready topic, even among Christians who claim that Earth is not our home and we await the better country of heaven (Hebrews 11:16).  The agrarian society of our ancestors lived a lot closer to… Continue reading

  • Life Imitates Art

    A light, little romp today… a bleed over from a currently popular Facebook meme:  “Name three fictional characters with whom you identify.”  I pass this along here because someday my posterity may not know or remember me, but they will… Continue reading

  • Digging Deep

    “I never, ever in my wildest dreams, thought I would one day be going through chemo.”  The world of a professional acquaintance of mine (I’ll call her R) came crashing down mid-August when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. We… Continue reading

  • The Fruit of Love to God

    “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). – – – – – I live in a part of the country that… Continue reading

  • I Asked the Lord That I Might Grow

    You may or may not know that the housing industry is a leading economic indicator.  That’s why housing starts and home purchases are a regular news item.  So when the nation began to reel under the housing crisis of 2008,… Continue reading

  • Envy and Contentment

    Contentment… arghhh! I keep getting this message from a variety of sources!  Perhaps you share my condition – I think the Lord would have us move this from our heads to our hearts, don’t you?  I mean, I totally assent… Continue reading

  • To Die Is Gain

    On the afternoon of Sunday, July 31, Jamison & Kathryne Pals, along with their three children Ezra (3 years), Violet (23 months), and Calvin (2 months) were all killed in a rear-end collision. They were pronounced dead at the scene… Continue reading

  • Lift up Your Eyes

    “The Father is seeking such people to worship him.” “Lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.” (John 4) If you live in the upper Midwest as we do, you can’t help but accept the… Continue reading