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Author Archives: jwfisch
Our best for God
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch in his back yard accompanied by a lovely pink rose.) What gifts would you have for God? What would you bring to offer Him if you had the chance?
‘I will be with you’
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) If it had been me, I would have stayed in the winepress. Especially when I heard someone call out, “Mighty hero!” I would have known for sure it wasn’t for … Continue reading
‘But Lord …’
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Today’s Catch is part of a new series on the story of Gideon, not like the one we ran seven years ago. It will carry new insights and current applications … Continue reading
Gideon revisited: Mighty hero!
(Click here for a video of John reading today’s Catch) When our story begins, Gideon is not at all aware that he has been chosen to do anything but try to stay alive. Like everyone else in his country, he … Continue reading
Revisiting Gideon: Coming out of hiding
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) There’s no doubt about it, Gideon was hiding. When God found him and called him out to free his people from their enemies, he was hiding in a winepress where … Continue reading
Why we have Memorial Day
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” … Continue reading
‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall…’
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) My first understanding of grace came by way of my worst understanding of me. “Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone … Continue reading
No time to sleep
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) by Marti Fischer My heart hurts. This is Makenna Lee, fourth grader from Uvalde, Texas. Yesterday morning that priceless smile of hers brought joy to those who knew her as she … Continue reading
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Both sides now
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Inspired by yesterday’s Catch on learning to understand “the other side,” Terri, who has spent most of her career as a college professor, sent me some insightful comments a few … Continue reading
Empathy is not endorsement
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) In a recent interview in United Airlines Hemisphere magazine, singer/songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Bonnie Raitt, stated: “This time is the most fraught and worrisome in … Continue reading