Fresh heart for the journey
You step into a restaurant to order breakfast. The place is dirty and makes you feel ill at ease. A cranky server interacts with you, giving you the feeling she’d rather be anywhere else but taking your order. The food is long in coming and short on everything else. The bacon isn’t […]
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.” Matthew 6:5 NIV It’s rather unfortunate that in the church today, we tend to hear only ‘professional pray-ers.’ You know, the ones who know how […]
I’m a bit melancholy today. Not the kind that spirals down into depression. Mine is more like a slow-down of my thought processes to think about things that I seldom think about. And even my mild melancholy doesn’t amount to much nor does it last long. With the motivational gift of ‘exhorter’, I’m a […]
You met my mother-in-law… now meet my father-in-law. Marriott was a survivor of the wild and often frigid winters of North Dakota. He was an amazing man, strong of opinion, dedicated to getting unheard of deals when he purchased new cars, was a neighborhood hero for coming to anyone’s aid if they needed help, […]
I had the most amazing mother-in-law! Peg Albertson started as a teacher in a one-room school in Northern Wisconsin, and retired as a librarian many decades later. In addition she raised an absolutely marvelous daughter who I was smart enough to marry. In retirement she honed a skill she had practiced for most of […]
I am a pastor, teacher, and encourager. I am a happy husband and leader of a family tribe now numbering 13. I am President of Fresh Heart Ministries and consider called of God to help you grow in your spiritual walk … let you know how special you are to God … and have some fun while doing so.