Dr. Tim

One year ago Frazer launched its ONEfamily Initiative for adoption, foster, and orphan care. God has done amazing things through many families in our church community and around the world. We now have 17 full time foster care families and six respite care families. We have taken care of 23 kids since last May. We have over 200 members who have volunteered to support and help meet immediate needs when families first take in the children. This can range from meals, clothes, diapers, car seats, strollers, etc. Continue reading →

A few years ago I read about a business in southern California called “Heavens Union” that provides the unique but yet unproven service of delivering messages to deceased loved ones in heaven via terminally ill patients. A message of 50 words or less cost the sender $40, up to 100 words is $60. Delivery is guaranteed. The terminally ill are paid $10 per message and are briefed just prior to their death. Business was brisk in the beginning despite the owner being vague about just how the messages are delivered. For those who want extra assurance that the message will arrive, the owner has a priority service. For $125 your message will be carried by three couriers. Continue reading →

We lined up outside the guardhouse. We put our driver’s license and keys in a plastic basket. We signed a form and then waited for the guards to let us through the first gate and into a room where we would be patted down. We took off our shoes and shook them out, then turned our back to the guard and spread out our arms as he patted us down. We lined up, passed through a few more gates, and were lead into the chapel. There we joined with inmates to worship and share God’s word. Continue reading →

What’s your purpose in life? Jane Bridges shared a devotional with me this week. I thought it was great, and I needed to share it with you.

“Josh McDowell related the following incident: Continue reading →

One of my all time favorite books is titled, “Same Kind of Different As Me”. It was written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. Denver Moore was a homeless man living on the streets in Fort Worth. Ron Hall was a wealthy art dealer. They were brought together by Ron’s wife Deborah. She met Denver while serving at a homeless shelter. They forged a friendship based on faith that has blessed millions of people over the last few years. Denver Moore’s life was transformed by Jesus Christ and by the amazing Christ like love of Ron and Deborah Hall. “Same Kind of Different as Me” is their story. The book became a best seller. Since then Ron and Denver have spoken all over America and have been tireless advocates and helpers of the poor and homeless. Denver Moore died last week.

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Let’s remember the story:

• On Thursday Jesus was arrested on trumped up charges.
• He was brutally beaten, rushed through a fixed trial and was declared guilty.
• The next day, Good Friday, Jesus was crucified.
• From the cross he forgave those who beat him and nailed him to the cross.
• He died.
• He was buried in a borrowed grave. Continue reading →

The Loretto Chapel is in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was completed in 1878. It has been kept in near orginal condition. It took five years to build, and when it was finished, they realized there was no way to access the choir loft that was 22 feet in the air. No one thought about building stairs. The chapel was too small to accommodate a conventional stairway. The best architects were called in, and they all agreed that there was no way to build a staircase without destroying the beauty of the chapel and taking out much of the floor seating. Their only suggestion was to use a ladder to ascend to the loft. The sisters of the chapel did what they knew to do they began to pray for a solution. Continue reading →

The refrigerator door in my house growing up was the family bulletin board.  Whatever you needed to know about schedules, times, parties, appointments, or invitations were held in place on the refrigerator by kitchen magnets.  Over the years, the refrigerator bulletin board material changed.  In my growing up years, the material was all about my brother and myself and our schedules, invitations, and appointments.  After we left home, the refrigerator was filled with invitations that my parents had received to parties, weddings, and celebrations of one kind or another.  And then later on it became filled with pictures and mementos from grandchildren.  In the later years of their older adult lives, the refrigerator was filled with invitations to remind my parents of their doctors’ appointments. Continue reading →

Last Year the Men’s Ministry at Frazer began a ministry to widows. I want to share with you two emails I received last week: Continue reading →

At the beginning of 2012, we at Frazer made a covenant with God that we would be a word-centered church and that we would lead word-centered lives. We made seven resolutions for 2012: Continue reading →