by markfeldmeir | May 7, 2012 | Hospitality, Obedience
I read recently that there are 46 million people who own gym memberships in the United States, yet less than 20% of them actually go to the gym. They buy the shoes, the spandex shorts and sweat pants, the work out towel and water bottle. They carry their gym card...
by markfeldmeir | Apr 19, 2012 | Hospitality
I was talking to a friend of mine who spends a lot of time on the road, travelling from city to city across the country as a consultant. He spends more than two-thirds of his life on the road. We were talking about the toll that travelling takes on a person – the...
by markfeldmeir | Apr 4, 2012 | sermon
A few weeks ago I preached a sermon that continues to generate feedback from listeners. The sermon addressed the seemingly counter-intuitive, paradoxical, even illogical teaching of Jesus about the command to “carry our cross.” When Peter first heard...
by markfeldmeir | Mar 28, 2012 | Faith, Hospitality, Obedience
A few years ago I hiked the legendary Half Dome in Yosemite National Park for the first time. Adventurists have been making that 17-mile trek for more than one hundred and thirty-five years. The first person on record to make the ascent was George C. Anderson, who...
by markfeldmeir | Mar 23, 2012 | Faith, Jesus
Some people, in the face of extreme hardship, or loss, or grief, find comfort in the well-known, often over-used adage that “God never gives us more than we can bear.” Having sat with so many people over the years who have been given more than I could ever imagine...
