Back in January, I selected Perspective as my word-for-the-year. As the founder of a ministry outreach to parents struggling to set healthy boundaries with troubled adult children and the mother of a troubled adult child currently serving time in prison, it can be easy to...
Reading the news headlines these days can be disconcerting and more than a little irritating. Unfortunately, it is murder, mayhem, and negativity that sells. We read of wars, rumors of wars, and the atrocities of war. Man’s inhumanity against man is splattered across the page,...
“Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God who is our home,” wrote nineteenth-century English poet William Wordsworth in Lines from Tintern Abbey. His sentiment was that before we were born, we had an existence in God. He could feel something more than he knew...
HEBREW—The language of the Bible—the Oracle by which God has spoken to mankind through the inspired utterance of the preserved scriptures of the traditions handed down through Moses, the Writings, the Prophets, the Apostles, and incarnationally-and-subsumistically through the Master—our Lord Jesus the Christ—Yeshua ha’Mashiach Adoneynu. HEBREW—language...
In this month’s issue of Kaleidoscope, we’re looking at lies that cleverly masquerade as truth, lies brought to us by none other than the master of deception—Satan. As many of you may know, I’ve been writing professionally for decades, primarily in the genre of inspirational non-fiction....
Worried wrinkles creased the face of the young emergency room doctor. His eyes betrayed the emotions he tried to suppress as he cleared his throat. The sound of my heart was loud in my ears, and my mouth went dry when I heard his words. “Mr....
It may surprise one to know that cosmologists today understand the universe to be composed of two basic kinds of energy, usually described as matter and light. These experts believe this energy exists in two primary “sectors” of the universe—the dark sector and the light...
“The Fear of God is the Beginning of Wisdom” Proverbs 1:7 I was deep in thought as I stood in front of the luggage carousel waiting for my bags. Surrounding me were hundreds of people also waiting, some with great patience and others, not so much. It had been...
Numbers 1:1-2 Va’y’daber ADONAI el Moshe b’midbar Sinai b’ohel moeydb’echad la’chodesh ha’sheyni ba’shanah ha’sheynit le’tseytamme’eretz Mitzraim leymor: Soo et-rosh col-adat b’nei-Yisraell’mishpechotam l’veit avotam b’mispar sheymot col-zacharl’gool’ge’lotam. “And ADONAI spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tentof meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census...
Healthy boundaries—particularly healthy spiritual boundaries—define who we are and influence all areas of our lives. In fact, it is when we establish spiritual boundaries that we learn some of the most critical life lessons. How can we set healthy boundaries, replace destructive habits, and undo damage...