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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50) (older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 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...')
- 01:51, 11 May 2021 Whoever You Are, Christ Can Be Yours (hist) [6,206 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Few lies have kept more sinners from coming to Christ, whether for the first time or after a terrible fall, than this one: I am an exception to the promises of God. You ...')
- 15:44, 26 April 2021 Honor the Parents God Gave You (hist) [11,843 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.'' (Exodus 20:12)</blockquote> Why might G...')
- 15:33, 26 April 2021 You Are Still a Mother (hist) [8,916 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''To the Woman Whose Baby Has Died''' In March of 2016, our daughter Leila Judith Grace died at 39 weeks and 4 days in the womb. She was stillborn four days later. My h...')
- 15:23, 26 April 2021 What Are Angels Doing Today? (hist) [8,672 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Audio Transcript''' ''What are angels up to today? It’s a great question, and it comes to us today from an anonymous listener to the podcast. “Pastor John, hello ...')
- 15:10, 26 April 2021 Four Ways God Leads His People (hist) [3,951 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} I see at least four methods that God uses to leads us in his will. I put them in four "D’s" to help me remember them. '''1) Decree:''' God sovereignly decrees and de...')
- 15:02, 26 April 2021 If We Don’t Love, We Won’t Last (hist) [8,139 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Overcoming Offenses in the Church''' <blockquote>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21)</blockquote> When Paul wrote these words to ...')
- 14:07, 20 April 2021 Be Diligent to Enter God’s Rest (hist) [15,364 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. . . . Since therefore it rem...')
- 16:12, 19 April 2021 The Sweet Grief of Repentance (hist) [5,249 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise''. (Psalm 51:17)</blockquote> I can still see the mom...')
- 04:22, 19 April 2021 Will I Ever Change? (hist) [6,727 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Fresh Hope for the Spiritually Stuck''' Years ago I got stranded with a few friends and strangers in the elevator of a tall building. We waited for help to arrive, ch...')
- 04:05, 19 April 2021 God Has Not Forgotten You (hist) [6,996 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}“God has not forgotten you.” As I heard those words, I was flooded with emotion. I hadn’t realized how much I needed them. As tears streamed down my face, I unders...')
- 02:06, 13 April 2021 God’s Promise for the Disappointed (hist) [5,793 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Maybe you have longed for healing, for a job, for a baby, or for a wife. You have faithfully and earnestly prayed for weeks and months — even years. But you are still s...')
- 02:55, 12 April 2021 Do Not Despise the Day of Small Things (hist) [7,330 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Christians worship a big God with a big mission that will one day reach this whole big world. Yet for all of his bigness, our God has a remarkable love for the small. He ...')
- 02:49, 12 April 2021 Direct Your Heart (hist) [6,692 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}“Follow your heart” is a familiar phrase — essentially a pop cultural ''creed'' — representing a belief that our heart is a kind of compass that will lead us to t...')
- 20:31, 25 March 2021 We Cannot Cling to Bitterness and God (hist) [7,687 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}''Forgiveness''. Even the word can make us bristle. Past wounds instinctively spring to mind, making forgiveness feel impossible (or at least unnatural). What feels natur...')
- 20:19, 25 March 2021 The Most Lavish Promise of God? (hist) [7,624 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Immeasurable Joy in the Ages to Come''' From eternity past to eternity future, the purpose of creation and providence has been, and always will be, the communication ...')
- 20:01, 25 March 2021 The Hidden Ministry of Homemaking (hist) [6,904 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''What I Learned from Elisabeth Elliot''' Today I attacked the kind of cleaning chores that I envision other more diligent and domestically devoted women doing all the ...')
- 19:43, 25 March 2021 You Cannot Please God and People (hist) [11,437 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Remedies for the Fear of Man''' People-pleasing is a well-worn scheme and trap of Satan. If we think people-pleasing began with self-esteem training, the toleran...')
- 19:22, 25 March 2021 Aim All You Have at Heaven (hist) [9,369 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}'''How God Inspires Ambitious Generosity''' If we do not learn ''how'' to lay up treasures in heaven, we will inevitably settle for the treasures of earth — and miss o...')
- 19:06, 25 March 2021 Holiness Begins in Intimacy with Jesus (hist) [7,753 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}As I wrestle sin and fight for faith, I sometimes wish the pursuit of holiness came with some kind of equation. <blockquote>([X minutes of Bible reading] + [Y minutes of...')
- 15:31, 23 March 2021 How to Redeem a Wasted Life (hist) [7,813 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}A flower that never bloomed, fruit that never ripened, a womb that never bore, an egg that never hatched: a wasted life. Perhaps little time remains to say and do what y...')
- 15:23, 23 March 2021 Will You Praise Him While You Wait? (hist) [5,252 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. (Psalm 13:5)</blockquote> If faith is the beating heart of a Christian’s...')
- 15:19, 23 March 2021 You Don’t Need to Understand Now (hist) [7,626 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Jesus spoke many profound and important words to his disciples the night before his crucifixion. But there’s one statement we might easily pass over, because of the con...')
- 18:51, 19 March 2021 On the Possibility of Saying "I Love You But I Don't Like You" (hist) [4,857 bytes] Pcain (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}} '''The Opinion, v10 n2, pp. 5-7 ''' <p>In the fall of 1967 when winter was about to make its entry into northern Illinois I received a revelation that “Love is not ...')
- 15:03, 15 March 2021 Texts to Pray for Our Children (hist) [2,784 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Recently a good friend shared with me these verses that he and his wife have prayed for their two daughters (now teens) since they were babies. I find them very helpful a...')
- 18:48, 11 March 2021 Jesus Was Never Too Busy (hist) [2,409 bytes] Kathyyee (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{info}}Sometimes I pretend I don't have time. All the tasks on my to-do list are incredibly important. I'm too busy to answer that email. Too busy to help my neighbor—anyway,...')
