I’m Still Here

Joe | July 5, 2010

Hello! It’s been well over a month since my last posting. I wanted to thank my readership for hanging in there with me. When I recently wrote about turning 40, I think I underestimated the change. I suppose that I have entered that sometimes dreaded, mid-life crisis. However, I never thought that mine would take [...]

Half-Time!

Joe | April 23, 2010

I love football, especially my Denver Broncos. Like a lot of sports, football has a period during the game called “half-time.” It’s where the players and coaches go back to the locker room and huddle and set strategy for the second half of the game to either put it away or figure out a way [...]

Extracting The Precious From The Worthless

Joe | December 7, 2009

Things have settled down a little around here since Thanksgiving. The day before Thanksgiving, I received a phone call from the hiring manager I interviewed with a couple weeks previously. He made me a formal job offer. After a little over four months of being out of work, I had gotten the phone call I [...]

Afflicted and in Pain

Joe | November 4, 2009

It’s been a tough week and it’s only Wednesday. My wife and I have both spent some time this week in our local “governmental offices” and neither of us have enjoyed the experience. Quite to the contrary, we both have walked out in tears. But I have to say that I know that God is [...]

“Online Ministry” As a Career?

Joe | October 7, 2009

To sort of pickup where my last post left off, regarding a line of work that allows me to work from home and be with my family, I ran across a post today over at Church Crunch that talked about a career in online ministry. The part that really got to me was: Just imagine: [...]

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About the author

Joe

I am a born-again Christian who believes the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God-breathed. I am a husband, father and stepfather who eagerly waits for the return of Jesus, the Meshiach Nagid.