Dirty Windows
Ever notice that a window can look perfectly clean until the sun shines in? I’m looking out a window now. I would give it high marks for cleanliness. It doesn’t…
Author: Dale Heinold
ABCs of Faith: Growing Faith
We know the basics about growing, it’s all around us. A seed planted germinates, sprouts, grows deep, and pushes up. One sign of life is growth. We see it all…
Whole Armor: Know the Enemy
In the Art of War, Sun Tzu offers some wisdom about knowing your enemy. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a…
Stumbling in Shadowlands
There are times in our lives when we walk in Shadowlands. Times when we feel vulnerable and alone. Times when justice, fairness, and rightness, seem corrupt. Days when we feel…
ABCs of Faith – Focused Faith
There’s a lesson in faith that can be learned by plowing a field. For those that didn’t live a rural life let me explain. A plow turns the soil over…
God’s Armor – Not Just for Show
A few times a year, the school that I work at has a “spirit” week. Not spirit as in Holy Spirit but as in pride and community. During those weeks,…
A Jaw-Dropping, Eye-Opening, Heart-Wrenching Moment
Ever have one of those unexpected moments when one word, one thought, turns everything you believed in upside down? Like the day that you learned that Mom and Dad helped…
ABCs of Faith: Effective Faith
Attention please! Will the last person that literally moved a mountain like Jesus said, please raise their hand. Anyone? Me neither. It appears that we have a disconnect where reality…
Jesus, Peter, and John
We arrive at an ending. After reading John 20:30-31, the next few verses of John’s Gospel almost seem like an “Oh, one more thing”. The final chapter of John records…
The Utter Need for Forgiveness
There are several things we hope for in life. Peace and love, for instance. Healing of our inner heart wounds. Release from the prisons of addiction and hopelessness. As we…
ABCs of Faith: Doing Faith
Do you remember learning to ride a bicycle? Perhaps you had training wheels and a bike that was just your size. Maybe your dad steadied you as you wobbled down…
Jesus and Thomas
I think that Thomas gets a bad rap. Imagine being forever identified as “doubting Thomas” because of one incident. John writes: “But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was…