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Walt Henrichsen December 7, 2014 This promises to be an interesting topic for at least two reasons: First, “experiencing” is of paramount importance to our generation. Most go tp church experience God. They wish to feel good about themselves. They do not wish to be told of their sin and depravity. Rather, they want to hear about God’s love, forgiveness, and unconditional acceptance. Second, people tell me that I have the gift of encouragement; it is just that I have never exe

Walt Henrichsen December 7, 2014 Part 1 Solomon wisely notes in Ecclesiastes 11:9-10: “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.” Youth is a time of learning, when the mind is expanded an

Walt Henrichsen January 29, 2013 We discover that God created man with a desire for autonomy, as evidenced by the Garden of Eden. You remember the only prohibi­tion God gave Adam and Eve was that they could not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan deceived Eve into thinking that if she ate of the fruit she would be able to determine what is good and evil. This, of course, God never promised. Nor were Adam and Eve able to make that determination; that is

Walt Henrichsen December 7, 2014 Part One God created each individual with a moral gyroscope that says justice requires equality. By way of illustration, your wife gives your two children freshly baked cookies, but to one she gives ten and to the other she gives but two. The one with two says, “That’s not fair!” “Fairness” requires that each child receive the same number of cookies. God also created the world unjust as well as unequal 1. Some are gifted, while others are dull

Walt Henrichsen February 26, 2010 Dear Co-Laborer, I take another “timeout’ in my series on “Eternal Hope in the Old Testament” to review again a malady that afflicts the Body of Christ. You will no doubt think that I have become a preoccupied and fixated on this issue tat I am morbidly out of balance – and you may be correct. Nevertheless, I am terrified over what we are doing. When God delivered Israel from their bondage from Egypt, after Israel received the Law at Mount

Walt Henrichsen April 20, 2014 Part One My impression of the culture in the United States and Europe is that it is a combination of wanting control and fearing that people cannot obtain what they want. Insecurity robs people of humility. For these people, meaning in life is found in getting rather than giving, using others rather than serving them. Kindness, manners, deferring to others, gratitude – all are signs of weakness. Culture argues for transparency, but only to a