The Cactus & The Cross Blog

Ash Wednesday is on February 14th this year—Valentine’s Day. While some may think it strange to celebrate romantic love on the same day...

Have you ever had your phone working but not quite right, dropping calls and apps suddenly closing? Sometimes the best thing is to reset...

Advent and Christmas are natural times to talk about peace. Jesus is, after all, the Prince of Peace (Isa 9:6)! At his birth, the angels...

It’s mid-October as I am imagining myself forward in the future to November and what may be on your hearts and minds in November with All...

Fewer and fewer people in the U.S. are participating in Churches. What can we do? More on that in a minute. The 16th century Reformation...

Leaders aren’t born, they’re grown. Yes, there are some people who seem to have native leadership skills, but I think it only looks that...

I returned from a wonderful family reunion in Pinetop to face that two long-time members of St. John’s had died: Donna Romanowski and...

I think every Christian leader (pastor, teachers, council member, committees, and so on), maybe every leader, should be open to hearing...

The prophet Daniel was probably a teenager when he was taken from his home in Jerusalem to Babylon, about 400 years before Jesus was...

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8) We’re living in a time of human history when things we thought...