Your relationships are what you’d care about most if you knew the limit of your time on earth — not how much you earned, but how much you loved. This podcast shares practical ideas about how to love well, what real power looks like in a confident woman, what specifically a woman does whose confidence is in the Lord...and finally for the married --- how to bring your marriage relationship "closer to a ten" by following a divine blueprint that leads to a glorious "cycle of honor."

What a pleasure to get to know new people who can so enrich our lives and we their's in an exchange of unique insights and experiences.  This podcast shares "outside the box" ideas for connecting with and enjoying more the people Providence puts in your path so that you can sharpen one another to the glory of God!

"The first cause of limitless space  ...  must be infinite

The first cause of endless time  ...   must be eternal

The first cause of boundless energy  ...  must be all-powerful

The first cause of universal interrelationships        ...     must be omnipresent

The first cause if infinite complexity  ...  must be all-knowing

The first cause of moral values  ...   must be moral

The first cause of spiritual values  ...  must be spiritual

The first cause of human responsibility  ... must have free will

The first cause of human integrity   ... must be truthful

The first cause of human love ...    must be loving

The first cause of life   ...   must be living"   Dr. Henry Morris.

Not many of us have experienced a tornado, but I'd venture most of us have experienced, out of nowhere, a touching down of chaos in our lives - a layoff, a diagnosis, a death, a crime, a betrayal,  with no official warning from the National Weather Service, or anywhere else.

Some have concluded that God and pain cannot coexist and that because pain does exist, God must not. 

I invite you today to rethink that assumption in this short podcast.

The years we lived in Oregon, I spent some time amidst the lovely and almost miraculous fluffy white powder at Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood Meadows and Ski Bowl from time to time on Mount Hood. There are no words to explain the nature experienced riding a ski lift, especially at sunset. I say "experienced" because when you are there in person, and you are feeling the crisp, cold air, and inhaling the freshness, oh, man. All the way up our grand mountain on my last trip up-- when my buddy wasn't coaching me how to improve my snowboarding skills-- in my head and heart I was in full worship mode, pouring out my gratitude and wonder in prayer and song for everything that was coming into my senses. Truly, "The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge." Psalm 19:1-2

Prayer changes things. If there was ever an understatement, I just said it. There is A LOT of room for growth here. A lot. In fact, I sometimes wonder if prayer is the most underutilized tool in the box. When we remember the loving nature of God’s heart combined with His omnipotence and His directive to pray, the moments we spend daily in prayer are actually some of our most efficient moments of our day. Those with this realization become willing to “labor fervently ...in prayer” (Colossians 4:12)  Thoughtful, earnest prayer is hard work, but God promises this: "The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much." (James 5:16) And Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened."  Matthew 7:7-8

Visualize yourself approaching God on His throne, smiling upon you because you’ve taken to heart His words about your casting your cares at His feet. He’s there and is ready to ready to hear your heart. Praise Him, thank Him, Confess your sins and weaknesses, and pray with me this...

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in the world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world...Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing...I must keep alive in myself the desire of my true country [Hebrews 11:16], which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.” C.S. Lewis

My how bland the world would be without the life lessons, foods, customs, and music of other cultures. Having just one ethnicity would be like having only one kind of flower or one kind of fruit tree.  We have so very much to learn from one another, and for that let’s be grateful. We will always have our differences, but Viva la Difference!

Do you remember the minors from the South American country some 10 years back that were trapped deep within the earth. You could probably find an interesting documentary on the heroic rescue. The story really stuck with me. And the whole time that history was unfolding, I couldn’t help but think about  the feeling of helplessness in the buried souls my heart goes out to every day.  To them, with love, I dedicate this podcast.