Katy’s Weblog
Lately I’ve been hearing of hospitalizations and health problems of elderly parents. Just today a friend’s mother passed away. Another friend’s mother is in a coma.
When I hear such news, I get tired. Tired of the burdens of life, tired of the difficulties. And I have not even experienced even half of what some…
I read an interesting article in the California Southern Baptists periodical – Can Sunday School be saved?
With declining attendance in Sunday School based on a LifeWay survey, the article discusses what can be done.
Ken Meyers, minister of Christian formation and education at Knollwood Baptist Church in Winston – Salem, NC, said the question…
I was in the ladies bathroom at church today and politely asked the elderly woman there the perfunctory, “How are you?”
She replied, “I’m good, praise the Lord.”
I like that. Praise God indeed. Even if we are not well, we know God is sovereign. Praise the Lord.
Warning: Spoiler Alert
With a stack of church ministry books to read, I decided to take a break and read my favorite genre. A whodunnit mystery is one of my favorite ways to relax.
In this Hamish Macbeth mystery, a lot of people die. Anyone who comes in contact with the murderer dies. And it…
We can function and live a decent life, even active in the church, “serving God”, and even do a good job in vocational ministry, yet have no real fellowship with God.
But I find that if I go weeks without focused prayer (merely surviving on quick prayers and public prayers that are usually impersonal), holes begin to show.
Our family listened to the audio of The Hunger Games on our road trip to Arizona over Christmas holiday. We were so engrossed with the story that we looked forward to getting back into the car whenever we can!
When we came home, we read, on our own, the two sequels, Catching Fire and Mockingjay.…
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.” ~ C. S. Lewis
When my children first started to be independent and have plans of their own, I felt a sense of sadness whenever two and especially when all three would be out, leaving no kids at home. It’s not that I have nothing to do, I have lots to do, but there was a sense of loss, the passing of a season of life.
God has called me to leave a church that I didn’t want to leave, to take on a job that I never imagined I would do, and begin a new phase of my life that I wasn’t expecting.
Two years ago, I started praying about what I would do when my youngest child goes off…
This book is a touching testimony of a woman who unknowingly married a high ranking member of the Mafia.
Michael Franzese and Camille Garcia met while she was a dancer in a movie he was producing. Raised by a very devoted Christian mother, Cammy’s faith in God was made real to her through the trials…
