-
Recent Posts
- Prayer Warriors August 1, 2023
- Interruptions June 5, 2023
- Penny-Pinching and Caring for the Needy: How to Practice ‘Gleaning’ Today January 12, 2023
- An Inconvenient Season? December 6, 2022
- Do You Have Good Eyes? November 18, 2022
Archives
- August 2023
- June 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- June 2022
- April 2022
- November 2021
- October 2021
- August 2021
- April 2021
- February 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- February 2020
- October 2019
- August 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- August 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- June 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
Categories
- 1 Corinthians 13
- Academic
- Christian Living
- Christmas
- Contentment
- Coronavirus
- Culture
- Discipleship
- Easter
- Evangelism
- Good Friday
- History
- Homiletics/Preaching
- Leadership
- Marriage
- Ministry
- Music
- New Year
- Poems
- Prayer
- Proverbs
- Psalms
- Psalms of Asaph
- Sanctification
- Suffering
- Thanksgiving
- The Bible
- Theology
- Uncategorized
- Work
- Worship
Author Archives: Bob Bjerkaas
You Are Not An Alligator: Thoughts on Evangelism
Just outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the east side of Route 15, you can visit an amazing place: Clyde Peelings Reptileland. When we lived on the East Coast, and my kids were younger, we visited there several times and always had … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism
Tagged 2 Timothy 4:5, Evangelism, John 4:39, William James Kimball
Leave a comment
A Commitment to the Unseen: Lessons from Blindness and Old Spanish Coins
As some of you who read this blog know, I am legally blind. I have fairly extreme tunnel vision – my ophthalmologist tells me I have about “six degrees” of vision; that is not good. As a result, I have … Continue reading
Worshipping on Vacation?
Over the next three months, many of us will be away from our home churches for at least one Sunday. The reason? School is out! It is time for summer vacations! Even if we don’t have kids or they are all … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Worship
Tagged Cotton Mather, Hebrews 10:25, vacation, worshipping on vacation
Leave a comment
$394,258.28 Advice for Everyone: Prioritize and Finish
In leadership and management literature there is a frequently cited anecdote involving two giants of the early twentieth century. In 1918, Charles Schwab, then the CEO of Bethlehem Steel, had a fifteen minute long meeting with Ivy Lee, a productivity … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Proverbs
Tagged Charles Schwab and Ivy Lee, priorities, Proverbs 24:27
Leave a comment
Playtime for Children – A Biblical View
The school year is winding down and parents are finalizing their summer plans! I am sure those of us with school aged kids at home are eagerly anticipating the end of the school year and the opportunity for our children to … Continue reading
Married? Read Your Own Mail First!
It was twenty-five years ago that I met with a family of three – a mom, her daughter, and the step-dad. The conversation was depressing: recriminations, broken promises, failed responsibilities, vindictive and hurtful words… What was most troubling was that … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living
Tagged Ephesians 5:21, Ephesians 5:22, Ephesians 5:25, Marriage
1 Comment
Solomon’s Uncertainty Principle
In quantum mechanics, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle describes one small sense in which we as humans cannot know everything. We cannot, with equal precision, know both the position and the speed of an object in motion. There are, however, other principles of … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Proverbs
Tagged Ecclesiastes 9:11, Proverbs 16:33, uncertainty principle
Leave a comment
Choosing the Thornbush
Have you found life to be a bit on the prickly side lately? Have you found yourself in deep and uncomfortable regret about a decision that you have made – or failed to make? Or perhaps you need to make … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living
Tagged Abimelech, decision making, Gideon, Joshua 9, Jotham, Shechem
Leave a comment
Are You Smarter Than Your Average Bear?
In his bestselling novel Sphere, author Michael Crichton puts an interesting observation in the climactic dialogue between his protagonist, psychologist Norman Johnson, and the alien power that he and his colleagues encounter. In that conversation, the alien being or consciousness … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living
Tagged 1 Corinthians 13:7, Imagination, Michael Creighton, Philippians 4:8, Sphere
Leave a comment
Bold Thrift
In John chapter six we read about Jesus’ ministry in Galilee – in particular we read about his “feeding of the five thousand.” He is preaching to a great crowd when Jesus asks his disciples where they should buy food … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living
Tagged Feeding of the five thousand, John 6, loaves and fishes, stewardship
Leave a comment