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Two great days

I started two days of fasting and prayer yesterday. Don't get the idea I am a monk who loves spiritual discipline. It is really hard for me. I told myself at the start of the day yesterday to think about my hunger pains as aches for God. It actually...

Posted to CRISTA President's Blog by bob.lonac on 20 Mar 2009

"Those were the best years of my life"

We just held the annual "Old Timers Picnic" at CRISTA. This is an annual event which started way before I came to CRISTA. These are all people who came at the call of Mike Martin to help start Kings Garden beginning in 1949. The name was changed...

Posted to CRISTA President's Blog by bob.lonac on 1 Aug 2008

Finding Strength in the Lord (Dealing with hard times) (Part Two)

Talk about hard times. Samuel chapter 30:3-6 "When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. David's...

Posted to CRISTA President's Blog by bob.lonac on 8 Dec 2008

Asking questions is really important

People tell me I am a question asker. I hope I am a good question asker. I would like to be a great question asker. I thought about this today when I had a chance meeting with one of our staff at the Arbor deli on campus today. She thanked me for a presentation...

Posted to CRISTA President's Blog by bob.lonac on 11 Jun 2008

Acts 20:35 "In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "

I have been thinking a lot about this challenge Jesus gave us. This is either really true or it is one crazy idea that makes no sense. When I wake up in the morning my first thought usually is not "how can I help other people?” Mostly I am thinking...

Posted to CRISTA President's Blog by bob.lonac on 13 Feb 2009

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