Category Archives: God’s Nature

Eclipse – Meaning and Application

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This was the week of the great eclipse. Probably you and friends enjoyed seeing it. Perhaps you have had a chance to enjoy the science around it. How about now considering possible spiritual import? Okay, balance, here. No unusual predictions. On the other hand, yes, some realistic talk about already dire situations. Important for parents, teachers, pastors and anyone who deals with youth.

Book: Learn at Home for Great Shalom
I was recently told that homeschoolers often wonder what to do when they experience a problem such as a reluctant reader. Curricula choices don’t solve the need for direction. This book does. It helps you be sure you are meeting all your students’ special needs.

How to Not Lose Your Faith in College, Rather, Loose It
So important, as you prepare your student for college that you also give him or her a faith that stands up to the onslaught of unbelieving professors. Most churches don’t. A bishop asked me to write this because he didn’t know what to say to his children. Here is help.

Next week, a great interview from someone who has offered a great line of books for children — that teach character. Be sure to tell everyone it is coming.

Dad is Pleased to Have a Little Guy

I was walking this evening and met a family coming down the street. The little guy in the stroller said, “Hi” when he saw me. I said “hi” back and the parents greeted me. I said, “I think it was the little guy who said ‘hi’.” “Yes, he is very friendly,” said the mom. But it was the look of the dad that really got me. He looked like a young guy to me; one of those silly hairdos that look like he just got up from bed. Probably a responsible 30 year older, given that the houses are fairly nice around here. Doesn’t matter to the story. What I noticed was that as we were talking about “the little guy” he was looking down with such a look of joy. He was clearly glad he had a son.

God thinks about you that way.

And oh, if only we could remember that, feel that, then maybe we could remember to stay in that bliss with our kids too.

Good News Coming

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Big announcement. Good things coming — from the Great Shalom Broadcast. Continuing to encourage moms to have faith for their children!

Thank God that God has faith enough to see us raised up, growing up, and going on to great things!

Best Response to Terrorism

Choices. How to respond to hurt? Just posted interview re Shiloh Israel’s Children’s Therapy Center, healing the hurt of terrorism.

David Rubin and his 3 year old son were driving to an appointment when they were shot by a terrorist. Rubin responded by establishing a center that helps children heal from the trauma of terrorism. Please hear this interview. Please support this work. Without help, children often act out their hurt. There are therapy modalities that can help them, but often they are outside the reach of families. Please support this great work: www.ShilohIsraelChildren.org.

Please also consider the contrast between the two responses to hurt. One group, in response to some insult in a corner, produced lethal violence on an international scale. Another, in response to intended terrorism, meant to kill him and his 3 year old for nothing than their existence, responded by healing for many. The latter seems to me to be a much better and more appealing representation of God.

My understanding of God, as a follower of Jesus, is that God willingly suffered for us, to rescue us from a life of evil and to show us the way to live.

Of course, Mr. Rubin is a devote Jew. You may discover how he views faith in his book

God, Israel & Shiloh

. His book, T

he Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of O…

, covers current political relations. These books are available on www.amazon.com.