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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 02:09, 6 January 2022 A Father’s Good Pleasure (hist) [7,020 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}A recent experience stirred in me a desire to share a word for fathers. I have fathers of younger children particularly in mind, those on the front end of their fathering...')
- 16:38, 4 January 2022 Ten (More) Questions for a New Year (hist) [7,282 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Two years ago, I wrote in “Ten Questions for a New Year” that the close of one year, and the beginning of a new one, is an ideal time to “consider your ways” (Hag...')
- 22:24, 29 December 2021 Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser (hist) [9,877 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Whoever you are, wherever you live, in whatever age you live, you either live to please man or you live to please God. And if you think it’s possible to serve both, you...')
- 16:25, 17 November 2021 What Love Is Not (hist) [10,557 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Four Ways We Avoid the Costs''' Is it strangely possible that love is both pervasive and yet endangered in our day? The label is certainly plastered, like bright yell...')
- 15:53, 17 November 2021 Bless Those Who Hate You (hist) [8,036 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you''. (Luke 6:27–28)</...')
- 15:44, 17 November 2021 We Win the World with Singing (hist) [11,208 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>What language shall I borrow<br> to thank thee, dearest friend,<br> for this, thy dying sorrow,<br> thy pity without end?<br> Oh, make me thine forever,<br>...')
- 15:28, 17 November 2021 Food Rules (hist) [8,721 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How God Reshapes Our Appetites''' A graduate student sits at a booth with friends, his second drink near empty. “Can I refill you?” the waiter asks. A mother see...')
- 15:04, 17 November 2021 Take the Hill (hist) [8,242 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Mission Brings Men Together''' The plot was, in most respects, suicidal. Jonathan, impatient with his father’s halting, snuck off to the Philistines’ camp, h...')
- 14:54, 17 November 2021 Impatience Is a War for Control (hist) [9,217 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How God Prepares Us to Wait''' Impatience is a dark and prevalent sin that we love to explain away. We were ''worn out''. We were ''busy''. We were ''distracted''. Th...')
- 14:40, 17 November 2021 The Hardest Word to Obey (hist) [7,375 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}The most morally beautiful, winsomely attractive command Jesus ever uttered also happens to be the most difficult to obey: <blockquote>You shall love the Lord your God w...')
- 16:26, 16 November 2021 You Are Not Nothing (hist) [9,274 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Ways to Pursue Real Humility''' I recently had the incomparable joy of visiting the Grand Canyon. Though ''visit'' isn’t quite the right word, I suppose. You d...')
- 04:59, 9 November 2021 For God So Warned the World (hist) [10,113 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How He Keeps the Ones He Loves''' If an old-time preacher, one who believed in uncomfortable realities like the wrath of God, human depravity, and divine judgment, ro...')
- 04:38, 9 November 2021 Sin Is Not Who You Are (hist) [6,817 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God''. (2 Corinthians 5:21)</blockquote> A great ...')
- 04:20, 9 November 2021 Laziness Ruins Happiness (hist) [7,365 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''What Makes Diligence a Virtue''' Most people do not want to be thought of as lazy — as a person averse to hard work. We all know laziness is a vice — a corrupting...')
- 19:42, 1 November 2021 Live Like You’ll Live Forever (hist) [7,036 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}The world makes its quiet but furious war against death, groping to live forever. Plastic surgery, obsessive fitness, compulsive dieting, pouring billions into scientific...')
- 02:27, 19 October 2021 Every Father’s Calling (hist) [8,991 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Nurture and Admonish''' We live in a perilous age. What Christian parents haven’t worried about the world they are sending their children into? Depravity is...')
- 02:18, 19 October 2021 Moms Can Make Disciples (hist) [9,624 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}After I had my first child, and all the more after I had my second, I wondered if I would be done with ministry until my kids grew up. I wondered how I could possibly fit...')
- 02:10, 19 October 2021 Every Other Way Leads to Death (hist) [7,499 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Why We Keep Sharing Christ''' A man sat along the road where one path broke into ten. A deep fog rested upon the land so no traveler could perceive each path’s end....')
- 02:00, 19 October 2021 Beware the Anger of Your Soul (hist) [10,046 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Restrain Ungodly Passion''' Every time we reread a great book, we inevitably get something new out of it. This isn’t because the book changes, but because we...')
- 01:51, 19 October 2021 The Lord Gave and Took Away (hist) [7,472 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Lessons on Suffering from Job''' My fourth miscarriage flattened me. I couldn’t believe it. I’d buried an infant son a few years earlier and was unprepared for ye...')
- 02:27, 28 September 2021 The Illusion of Normal Days (hist) [6,642 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Life as usual, many will come to realize, was never life as usual. When Christ returns, many will discover too late that they lived within a dream. Years came and years ...')
- 01:53, 28 September 2021 The Rest Beyond Our Reach (hist) [6,885 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Finding Refreshment in a Burnout Culture''' At the end of his life, my friend David leaned into Christ’s promise of rest. The hope he drew from that promise so comf...')
- 01:39, 28 September 2021 God Never Makes a Mistake (hist) [8,416 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''God never makes a mistake''.</blockquote> I vividly remember those words, a chapter title in Evelyn Christenson’s book ''What Happens When Women Pray''...')
- 14:21, 10 September 2021 Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering (hist) [10,328 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''God permits what he hates to accomplish what he loves''.</blockquote> I remember it like it were yesterday. I was fresh out of the hospital, barely out o...')
- 18:42, 1 September 2021 Help Someone Home to Heaven (hist) [6,991 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Walk with the Wayward''' Richard and Andy worked in a factory outside a west Texas town. Andy’s new faith was growing, but he told Richard his drive home was...')
- 20:45, 6 July 2021 The Confusing and Perfect Love of Christ (hist) [10,528 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}My toddler has a little stuffed lamb. When you squeeze him, the lamb sings, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” ''Jesus loves me''. Words simpl...')
- 18:31, 6 July 2021 Can I Follow My New Heart? (hist) [8,174 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}“Why shouldn’t I follow my heart? If I am a Christian — if God has caused me to be ‘born again’ and has given me ‘a new heart’ — isn’t my new heart trus...')
- 18:24, 6 July 2021 God, Make Me a Force for Good (hist) [8,579 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}If you are a follower of Christ, God intends for you to be a force for good in this world. He intends for you not only to rejoice in Jesus’s good work for you, but to b...')
- 15:19, 16 June 2021 Hope Makes a Broken Heart Bigger (hist) [8,043 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{info}}Two years after he lost his son, you could tell he had changed. Death had stolen into his family and pierced him, shattered him, broken him. Yet gradually, haltingly, he c...')
- 15:12, 16 June 2021 Devastating Mercy (hist) [8,186 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Jesus Redeems Our Failures''' As simply worded as the Gospels often seem, the multidimensional Jesus we encounter in them is anything but simple. We can see this ...')
- 15:07, 16 June 2021 We Seek a Better City (hist) [9,505 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Liberating Power of Christian Hope''' Among the many hopes challenged, if not dashed, in the last year have been civic hopes. Perhaps we in Minneapolis have felt ...')
- 15:01, 16 June 2021 Assume the Best of Others (hist) [6,960 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Resilient Love in an Age of Suspicion''' I didn’t see the sin until I saw the effect it began to have on my wife. Once vivacious, childlike, radiant, she began to j...')
- 15:58, 9 June 2021 ‘You Did Not Choose Me’ (hist) [8,586 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Jesus Awakened Me to His Sovereignty''' We’re told that “the word of God is living and active,” that it can cut through the complexities of our inner being ...')
- 15:48, 9 June 2021 Who Might Find God in Your Suffering? (hist) [8,759 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Do you feel prepared today to defend your faith in Jesus? If not, what would it take for you to feel ready? <blockquote>Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in you...')
- 15:25, 9 June 2021 The Only Certain Hope on Earth (hist) [8,680 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}“It is the hope that kills you,” as many English football (soccer) fans say. Is it not better to have low expectations instead of hoping your team will do well, only ...')
- 15:15, 9 June 2021 If You Could See the End (hist) [8,582 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Story God Writes in Suffering''' A strange grief crept upon me as the final ''Lord of the Rings'' movie came to an end. An unliterary man at the time, I watched t...')
- 14:59, 8 June 2021 Waiting to Be Led (hist) [11,343 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Four Steps for Discouraged Wives''' Submitting yourself to the leadership of another sinner is no easy task. As much as we may recognize the necessity of submission ...')
- 16:21, 1 June 2021 When My Quadriplegia Ends (hist) [6,987 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''What Makes Me Long for Heaven''' On the morning of my wedding, my helpers laid me on a couch in the church’s bridal salon to dress me in my gown. They heaved and sh...')
- 15:52, 1 June 2021 How to Hear a Sermon Well (hist) [10,606 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}No preacher, upon looking up from his pulpit, hopes to see what I saw mid-sermon one Sunday morning: a man in the last row, head tilted against the back wall, sleeping li...')
- 14:52, 21 May 2021 Sometimes God Just Closes Doors (hist) [4,627 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}For the last few years, my body has had a strange relationship with food. By strange, I mean terrible. Rather than providing nutrition, many foods provide me with small d...')
- 16:08, 20 May 2021 Let the Little Children Come to Me (hist) [7,384 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Invitation to the Weak and Needy''' Leaning against the hood of my car, I didn’t want the date to end. It was late, but the well-lit parking lot outside her apartme...')
- 16:03, 20 May 2021 Our God Listens (hist) [6,215 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}You have been invited to speak to the God of the universe, the Almighty. Not just the mightiest, but the ''all-mighty''. All power is his, and under his control. And he i...')
- 15:46, 17 May 2021 You Have Need of Endurance (hist) [7,194 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}A few months ago, I met a friend for breakfast. When I asked him how he was doing, he answered, “I’m enduring.” If his response doesn’t sound remarkable, it’s ...')
- 15:06, 17 May 2021 When the Ground Gives Way (hist) [6,753 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into ...')
- 20:06, 13 May 2021 Mothering at the End of Me (hist) [5,563 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}I entered motherhood with certain expectations. I thought I would be happier than I was, and I thought mothering would come more naturally and easily. I still loved being...')
- 20:02, 13 May 2021 To All Who Need Rest (hist) [8,344 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Jesus Welcomes the Weary''' Life is hard. There is so much that makes us feel weary: our vocational labors, our parenting labors, our ministry labors, our relatio...')
- 22:21, 12 May 2021 The Strange Task of Witnessing About Light (hist) [5,096 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Witnessing about light is a strange task if your aim is for people to see the light and believe in the light. Light illumines by itself. When you want someone to see a li...')
- 02:24, 11 May 2021 Salt, Suffering, and Satisfaction (hist) [3,605 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Try this interpretation of what it means for Christians to be salt. I suggest that being salty as a Christian means at root being so profoundly satisfied by Christ as ou...')
- 02:11, 11 May 2021 ‘Love What Others Have’ (hist) [9,479 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}One day, as Jesus was teaching, a man in the crowd shouted out, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me” (Luke 12:13). Now, if we had been in that...')
- 01:59, 11 May 2021 Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible (hist) [7,770 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}When I was 12 years old, the Bible came alive to me. I remember staying up late to read it under my covers. I would take it along with me wherever I went, stealing time t...')
