Dear Friends, Near Christmas, more than nine years ago, I wrote and sent out the following message. I will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing (Ezekiel 34:26) The mountains and the hills surrounding the campus of the Loma Linda University […]
Kent Hansen
A Word of Grace – March 31, 2014
Dear Friends, Too many days, when I seek to quiet my heart before God and offer up praise and thanks, the issues, conflicts, disputes, fears, urgent requests and critiques that are the natural lot of a lawyer boil up angry and inflamed in the midst of my prayers. They carry my thoughts to a maelstrom […]
A Word of Grace – March 24, 2014
Dear Friends, Winter officially closed out this past week. It failed to do its job in my part of the world, even though Coast Guard ice-breakers are at work opening 300 miles of frozen shipping lanes on Lake Superior. We are sun-baked and parched here in Southern California’s worst drought on record. We drove north […]
A Word of Grace – March 17, 2014
Dear Friends, Last week, I told the story of my friend Shon gently interceding to stop me from delivering a harsh and vindictive response to an injustice because she knew that such an action would not represent God’s best for my life. This is a continuation of that message. An old story echoed through my […]
A Word of Grace – February 10, 2014
Dear Friends, Only we who believe can enter his rest (Heb 4:3, NLT). I referenced a family vacation in a lecture to a university class one evening. At the end of class, the oldest student in the class did not leave the room and remained seated at her desk. She was tall blonde woman in […]