Straight to Jesus
When I say that the year 2023 is for me the Year of the Mission, what do I mean? It’s not that other years weren’t mission years, nor that future years won’t be. It is a way of organizing my plans and my teaching. Something I do each year, using a theme for emphasis. Continue reading “Is 2023 the only Year of the Mission?”
When inventor Thomas Edison watched his laboratory burn to the ground, he supposedly commented that he was happy to be able to begin again from scratch. That attitude has reminded me over the past several days that God gives us many opportunities in the midst of trials, disasters, and suffering. Continue reading “3 important principles for starting again”
Everything is being gathered under the forthright.net domain: Forthright Magazine, Brotherhood News, The Fellowship Room, Sermon Lines, Believing Prayer. The menu at the top directs the visitor to the various sections. Continue reading “Forthright going forward”
This past weekend, all our websites suffered hacking and a major loss of content. It appears we can recover most or all of it, but it will take time. In the meantime, we continue on in our mission to encourage, motivate, inform, and edify. Continue reading “Continuing”
Thank you, Father, for upsets in life,
both great and small, as they provide
time to rethink, to see anew
processes and objectives, goals
and means, and even deeper things:
the whys and wherefores, the basis
of reason, faith and abiding hope.
Guide me, Lord, to the other side,
to purer joy and eternal love.