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Tag Archives: new frontier
Pioneers
Pioneer, pioneer Keep pressing onward beyond your fear Only the Father goes before you To your own frontier — you’re a pioneer from the song “Pioneer” by Nancy Honeytree Here at the Catch, we are about something coming. We are … Continue reading
Close Encounters of the Spiritual Kind
Okay, I’ve been dancing around this all my life, but I’m finally ready to come out with it. Blame it on my wife, Marti. She’s been saying something’s coming for some time now and I’ve been going, “Sure, sure.” But … Continue reading
Prisons of our own making
Your prison is walking through this world all alone. – Don Henley and Glen Frey from the song: “Desperado” I guess just about anything can become a … Continue reading
Free indeed
When referencing that Jesus had come to set the prisoners free, one of our readers commented, “He didn’t specify those wrongly imprisoned but prisoners regardless of what they are guilty of doing.” Great observation, John. We don’t see Jesus going … Continue reading
50
Fifty years ago this month, I was beginning my final semester at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and getting ready to stay for two weeks after graduation to record my first album with players from the Old Town School of … Continue reading
God’s welcome home
Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing ’til you leave it for awhile… My good friend and mentor, Ron Ritchie, sent me a picture yesterday of the Christian rock group, Love Song, and Phil Keaggy, taken at an awards event … Continue reading
A Catch for every morning
I was working on a Catch at a local coffeehouse when a bus rolled by with a sign: “There’s a McDonald’s for every morning.” It got me thinking, and a few minutes later I had written this poem. I hope … Continue reading
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and the rise of a new frontier
In a timely article in the New York Times by Rod Dreher entitled, “Trump Can’t Save American Christianity,” an effective argument is raised that American Christianity is actually not worth saving because it is not true Christianity. It’s not “historical” … Continue reading
Business (not) as usual
After over two decades of working with world humanitarian enterprises and dealing with pressing global crisis situations, Michael McCausland has come to the conclusion that the greatest need in the world today, even here in America, is not food, shelter … Continue reading
Restless for a reason
She’s an emotional wreck. She feels useless. She has a number of unreached goals in life and she feels too tired to take them up again. Her life seems to be full of inconsequential busyness. She is sad. She feels … Continue reading
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