The Jesus Way #4 – Don’t Murder or…
Hang around people long enough, and you soon realize they hate it when their foundational beliefs are challenged. And yet Jesus does just that. “You have heard that our ancestors…
Author: Dale Heinold
What Drives You?
A car is just a hunk of metal unless someone gets behind the wheel and drives it. Our actions are like that car; nothing happens without a driver. Some motivating…
ABCs of Faith – Xtreme Faith
The pinnacle of extreme sports is the annual X-Games. The X-Games are somewhat styled after the Olympics but have an edgier and more dangerous feel. These are extreme sports that…
The Jesus Way – 3 – Are You Righteous?
Bias is normal. We all have a collection of defined and undefined rules that govern how we see and interact with our world. Those rules bias us towards certain actions…
Love is Patient
Love is patient. Talk about going for the gut on the first punch. Paul doesn’t start his “Love is” list with something easy like kindness or gentleness but with patience.…
ABCs of Faith – Victorious Faith
Some of you may remember ABC’s Wide World of Sports. A Saturday afternoon TV staple hosted by Jim McKay that ran from 1961 until 1998. The show was a compilation…
The Jesus Way #2 – Salt and Light
“You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and…
Practically James: Get It Done
One day four men built a backyard deck. Two men came from the lofty halls of mechanical engineering, two were mechanics of different stripes. As it turned out the deck…
Fly!
When the years roll from one to the next we often consider the past and wonder about tomorrow. It’s the healthy activity of closing one book and beginning another. Taking…
The Jesus Way – 1 – Introduction
The setting has been imagined ever since Matthew penned his Gospel. A green Galilean mountainside. A crowd of curious everyday people from Galilee, the Ten Cities, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond…
A Time for What?
The Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes is a head-scratcher. For instance, in Chapter three after the poetic and song-worthy couplets of “for everything there is a season” the writer asks,…
Christmas Kisses
I haven’t realized until recently the uniqueness of my childhood Christmases. My family wasn’t large but long. When I was a child, there were five living generations including four grandparents,…