by Don Freeman | Jul 11, 2024 | Blog
Yesterday, he was not a part of God’s story. Today, he’s been summoned into it by a God he’s yet to get to know. My guess is there is a work of the Holy Spirit here, making it clear to Abram that this is a significant calling, one to be obeyed. So, he does. He packs...
by Don Freeman | Jun 29, 2024 | Blog
Parenting, by definition, knows times of heightened anxiety. Any time a child is rushed to the hospital. The first time a teenager is allowed to stay home alone for the weekend. When the time comes to become a driving instructor. When the school principal calls in the...
by Don Freeman | Jun 27, 2024 | Blog
In a few densely packed, carefully chosen words, Jesus spoke a powerful and life-altering reality: his disciples (us, therefore) would be in the world but not of it, in the same way he was not of it (in John 17). Every generation of believers since that prayer was...
by Don Freeman | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog
We are eternal beings living lives boundaried by time. Our souls know only eternity. Our minds know only 24 hours per day. Our bodies submit to the arc of birth, childhood, adulthood, death. We are, nonetheless, eternal beings filled with bounding hope. Jesus referred...
by Don Freeman | Jun 20, 2024 | Blog
By four years of age, children have absorbed millions of bits of information telling them about the world and their place in it. Dr. James Dobson, of ‘Focus on the Family,’ has stated that children are the best receivers of information and the worst interpreters of...
