Spotlight Interview with Gary Kendall: How an App can Help You Love Your Neighbors Better
How well do you know your neighbors? Do you know them by name? Pray for them by name? If you have ever wondered, How can I know who lives in these houses on these streets I’m driving down and how can I pray for them by name? Well, there’s an app for that! The Bless…
Read MoreLet nothing eclipse the True Light
It happened! And I saw it! On April 8, 2024 the moon passed before the sun, the temperature dropped, the wind shifted. We protected our eyes and we stood amazed with millions of our neighbors— all eyes looking at one specific spot in the sky. Darkness arrived at mid day and so did the goose-bumps! …
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 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 MoreChristmas Past, Present and Future
You can’t experience Christmas in the United States or Western world and not have some exposure to Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol. We all know the story then, right? Ebenezer Scrooge is a grouchy discontent who is visited by the ghost…
Read MoreCarmen’s 23 books of 2023
Each year, I have the opportunity to read a lot of books and interview many authors for Mornings with Carmen, and I’m happy to share my favorites from 2023. Bonus: we’ve included a corresponding interview! 1. The Bible Endless are the “other” books that have been and will be written. If you have not read…
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