Articles by Category: General

Retirement . . . March 7, 2014

There’s an unwritten rule in ministry that when there comes the time for a pastor to retire from the pastorate, he and his family will leave and seek a new home church rather than stay on as simply a member of the congregation. If you haven’t thought about it, there are two reasons: 1) the  read full article …

Success in Life . . . February 25, 2014

Jerry Del Colliano recently sent out this message, which he titled “Succeed with these Two Words”: Bruce Lachot and Kent Loo, Scottsdale, AZ dentists are taking their entire office to Hawaii in a few months.They are paying for all their expenses – airfare, travel, meals and are shutting down the office and not charging their  read full article …

A Pastoral Word . . . February 13, 2014

The changing of this page has become somewhat irregular over the past couple of months as we go through a transitional period here, where not only did I step down from direct involvement with enLighten … we’ve also lost our webmaster, Brenda. She designed and built this website in 2006 and has faithfully maintained it  read full article …

Stress January 25, 2014

Even if we don’t hear the word mentioned a whole lot … so many in today’s world live with too much stress in their daily lives, brought on by attempting to simply do and carry more of a physical and mental load than one should make their bodies and brains try to handle. “Stress” was  read full article …

Christmas… December 22, 2013

Two Christmases ago, Alicia and I were in Dallas, Texas over Christmas … and on Christmas Day the Dallas Morning News newspaper’s only editorial carried the headline, “A Joyful Noise.” It’s sub-headline stated: “Christmas is best understood through its music.” Keeping in mind that Christmas was on a Sunday in 2011, let me share excerpts  read full article …

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