by Don Freeman | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog
Our Kingdom-adopted, Jesus-redeemed, hearts are straining mightily under the growing burden of the spiritual seisms of our day. It is impossible to completely escape the searing impact of animosity-fueled vitriol rampant in culture. So now, more than ever, I want to...
by Don Freeman | Jun 2, 2022 | Blog
(still more, as I see it) It’s now been a whole week! A week of extreme ideas, extreme waiting, extreme excitement, extreme lows and extreme highs: in short, exhausting on many fronts. There’s even extreme effort in keeping anxious thoughts at bay, in keeping a watch...
by Don Freeman | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog
Like a kinked garden hose that allows precious little water through, the zealous Pharisee, Saul, had very little openness to, or esteem for, anyone but his fellow Jews and Judaism, the strict, and strictly, Jewish religion. That is, until his blinding encounter with...
by Don Freeman | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog
We all know this. After a super intense weekend retreat, after the honeymoon, after the big anniversary celebration, after that long-awaited, once-in-a-lifetime getaway, after graduation, after the retirement – the letdown, the exhaustion, the emptiness, the fading...
by Don Freeman | Mar 20, 2021 | Blog
In 1697, Charles Perrault wrote ‘Cendrillon,’ a French fairy tale. Translated into English it became ‘Cinderella.’ It continues to be a popular storyline that has been adapted in over 400 vastly divergent versions. (The Brothers Grimm version, in 1812,...