Posts by Carmen Fowler LaBerge
Saturday before Easter: The day we get up in the dark
Carmen’s message for Christians for Easter: During Holy Week, we know what to do on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. But what do we do with the Saturday in between? Saturday is the day we get up in the dark. This is the witness of Christians to the world. There is darkness, but it cannot…
Read MoreDisciple Dilemma: How Discipleship can Transform a Work Place
How can a disciple help max-perform an organization? Well, it begins with the disciple! Dr. Greg Campbell, formerly the #2 Law Enforcement Office for the United States talks about his new book: “Developing You, Eleven Transformative Practices of Self-Development & Emotional Intelligence”
Read MoreReflections on the 2024 State of the Union Address
Last night, the President gave his State of the Union Address. The speech is more than tradition, it is a responsibility laid out in the US Constitution, Article II, Section 3, wherein the President must “give to Congress information of the state of the union.” But today, with hours of TV coverage before and endless…
Read MoreState of the Union (in Christ)
Tonight, the President of the United States will deliver the annual address to Congress known as The State of the Union. Whatever President Biden was planning, due to events in Ukraine (or Israel, or the economy) the plan changed. Life is like that. Life is dynamic. Things change. What doesn’t change? God. God is the…
Read MoreSince you asked, News sources I rely on
Several listeners have recently asked what news sources I rely on in preparing for each morning’s broadcast. This post was originally published on 2/3/2021 and updated 2/14/2024. Here’s a summary of my responses: What about you? What news, newsletters, aggregated lists are you relying on daily or weekly?
Read MoreA love letter
How does God love thee, let me count the ways. There are endless ways to approach the question of “how” God loves you. God loves you as Father, eldest brother, Bridegroom, Companion and Friend.God loves you from eternity past, in the present, and into eternity yet to come.God loves you with all that He is,…
Read MoreWhen too much of a good thing is no longer good
What the Stanley cup craze tells us about ourselves A woman in Roseville, California, was arrested after police found 65 stolen Stanley tumblers in the trunk of her car. The estimated value? $2500. I was intrigued when I saw the photo. The police displayed the stolen merchandise as if it was a drug bust. That’s…
Read MoreFebruary Talkic: What’s love got to do with it? Everything!
February Talkic: What’s love got to do with it? Everything! A life marked by love distinguishes a Jesus-person from everyone else in the room, on the call or at the party. Love is what distinguishes Christians from the rest of the world. “By this [love] all people will know that you are my disciples, if…
Read MoreMy Word of the Year 2024: Small
Do you have a word for the year? I don’t know how long other people have been doing it but, for the past few years I’ve been focusing on one particular word for the year— studying it through the Scriptures, listening for it in conversations, watching for it the world, sitting with it in prayer.…
Read MoreCultivating a life of prayer and prayer in real life
Why does prayer feel so hard sometimes? Perhaps we have forgotten (or never learned) what it means to depend on God throughout our day— and by extension for our lives. And so, prayer is an intermittent part of our day at best, or altogether missing. Or we may have seasons of intensity, suffering or need…
Read MoreConsidering Our Words in the New Year
Words. What do you hear when you listen to the regular rhythm of cultural conversations today? Do you hear what I hear? I hear words that are debasing, offensive, coarse and foul. Do you hear that too? I ask because profanity is normalized— so much that we may not even notice it. What happens to…
Read MoreThe Disciple Dilemma: Whole-Life Discipleship Part 1
An “Aussie” from London, tells two Americans about discipleship! For a lot of Western Christians, discipleship equals church. Is that Jesus’s discipleship? Not exactly. Dr. Dave Benson, of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity wants to talk about what’s missing in modern discipling, and offer real-world examples of what IS a disciple’s life and community.…
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