When People Throw Stones, Part 3

When People Throw Stones, Part 3

In last week’s posts, David Roper discussed the challenges that ministry leaders face when they are criticized and offered advice on how ministry leaders can cope. Today he... Read More »
When People Throw Stones, Part 2

When People Throw Stones, Part 2

In part 2 of “When People Throw Stones,” David Roper offers up some coping strategies for ministry leaders who have been criticized. Things You Can Do for Yourself Recently... Read More »
When People Throw Stones, Part 1

When People Throw Stones, Part 1

In this four-part series, David Roper draws from his fifty-year experience in ministry to address the challenges that ministry leaders and their spouses face when they are confronted... Read More »
Dingo Dog

Dingo Dog

Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one’s own advantage. —Dag Hammerskjold Harry Tupper is a fishing legend here in Idaho. In fact... Read More »
The Tent of Meeting

The Tent of Meeting

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. —John Ruskin Moses used to pitch a little tent “outside the camp some distance... Read More »
How Does Your Garden Grow?

How Does Your Garden Grow?

All beauty speaks of Thee. —Edward Grubb I received a letter from an old friend some months ago in which she wrote of her daughter and a few things they share in common:... Read More »
A Call to Failure

A Call to Failure

I had a call to a mission, Signed in my heart and sealed, And I felt my success was certain, And the end seemed already revealed; The sea was without a murmur, Unwrinkled its even... Read More »
Pulling an Eddie

Pulling an Eddie

“I will tell you. Get up, and do something the Master tells you; so make yourself his disciple at once.” ~George MacDonald Scripture: Matthew 14:22–33 Certain sports... Read More »
God of the Coming Years

God of the Coming Years

God of the coming years, through paths unknown We follow Thee . . . —Hugh T. Kerr Scripture: Hebrews 11:8 When Abraham was seventy–five years of age, God called him from... Read More »
What If Christmas Means a Little Bit More?

What If Christmas Means a Little Bit More?

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without... Read More »