by heavenward | Oct 24, 2021 | Blog
Nielsen Family Autumn 2021 Update Dear Friends, It’s mid-October and we are well into Autumn. For us here in Lake Chapala, this means our beautiful rainy season is coming to an end. Clouds still lace the sky, but rainstorms have slowly come to a stop. To us, this has...
by heavenward | Sep 21, 2019 | Blog
The 5 part mini-series “The Family,” launched by Netflix last month, is presented in the trailer and intro as an expose of some secretive quasi-Christian cult that operates under cover in Washington DC and other places of power. I decided to watch it out of sheer...
by heavenward | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
“The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great” by Ben Shapiro is scholarly, no-holds-barred analysis of where we are and where we have come from. His contention is that Judeo-Christian values and Greek reasoning are the twin pillars upon...
by heavenward | Jan 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured
This is a stunningly beautiful poem that speaks so much to me of the power of godly friendship. The author and narrator is Cori Jean. You can hear and see more of here work at: the Cori Jean...
by heavenward | May 6, 2018 | Blog
I was asked the question once again the other day. It came from one of my kids, all who have helped me hone my theology to a shard edge over the years. “Daddy, why do bad things happen? Why doesn’t God stop all bad things from happening so we can all be happy?” Leave...
