The Biggest Fight of our Married Lives
“Our windows were steamed up not from love but from hate.” During our second year of Seminary my wife Shirley and I grew apart. There...
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Chris Schimel
- Apr 21
- 2 min
HAS LIFE GOT YOU SPINNING?
If our culture says we should have a plate spinning, then we start one spinning! HELLO FRIENDS! My wife and I visited our son and his...
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Chris Schimel
- Apr 21
- 4 min
What Would YOU do? Have mercy or walk on by?
In preparation for the summer camping season I had volunteered to help do spring clean-up work at a Christian camp in the Front Range of...
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Chris Schimel
- Apr 21
- 2 min
I HATE RACISM
I hate the sign “Black Lives Matter”, not because I disagree with it. I hate it because someone felt they needed to make a sign to...
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Chris Schimel
- Apr 21
- 4 min
Relational Sabotage and Self-fulfilling Prophecies
So what does it mean to sabotage a relationship? Sabots were a type of wooden shoe worn by peasants in Europe. The word sabotage comes...
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Chris Schimel
- Apr 21
- 4 min
When you hear sirens…worry.
Parents are always told not to worry when their children are out and they hear sirens. They say, “We are told not to worry because we...
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Chris Schimel
- Dec 9, 2020
- 4 min
"THERE GOES CHRISTMAS!"
All of our Christmas presents…stolen. “Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, no evil...
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Chris Schimel
- Jun 27, 2017
- 5 min
SPIRITUAL WARFARE – A Christian’s “Call of Duty”
While a young pastor in the Los Angeles area, I encountered more tragedy and trauma than any one person would ever want to. I performed...
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Chris Schimel
- May 29, 2017
- 4 min
THE HOLE IN CAROL’S SOUL
Carol was just a young mother when she learned that her first child, five year-old Brian, was beginning to experience episodes of crossed...
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Chris Schimel
- Apr 18, 2017
- 4 min
Bizarre Thinking
Have you ever had a subconscious justification session with the Lord? Before I was a Christian I did a bizarre thing almost every night....
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Chris Schimel
- Mar 14, 2017
- 3 min
THE HEALING
Samuel was one of the most remarkable people I have ever met. Once he fully surrendered his heart to the Lord, there was no turning back....
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Chris Schimel
- Feb 27, 2017
- 4 min
THE WORST KIND OF LOST-NESS
“Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.” Micah 7:8 Have you ever been lost? I’ve been...
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Chris Schimel
- Jan 3, 2017
- 4 min
THE GOD-TEST
Once while pastoring a church in Southern California, my wife’s folks visited us. We were going to take off a few days and drive together...
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Chris Schimel
- Dec 14, 2016
- 4 min
KIDS BELIEVE
“What time is it, Mr. Fox?” Hendrix was four years old. His parents named him after the famous guitarist Jimi Hendrix. His father was a...
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Chris Schimel
- Nov 20, 2016
- 4 min
The Scandalous Nature of Grace
Rick, a former gang member, became a Christian and soon after began coming to our church because relatives of his attended there. He...
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Chris Schimel
- Oct 31, 2016
- 4 min
How To Stop People From Cursing
This is my two sons and I “enjoying” a game of golf! I love to play golf. Although, in my younger days before I was a Christian, if...
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Chris Schimel
- Oct 5, 2016
- 4 min
THE HOUSEBOAT INCIDENT
When the unexpected happens, do you know what is REALLY important? While in Southern California our family, consisting of myself, my wife...
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Chris Schimel
- Sep 21, 2016
- 4 min
IS A WALK REALLY AS GOOD AS A HIT?
I played baseball from my earliest childhood. I think I was born with a bat in my hand. I played three years of Pee Wee League, four...
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Chris Schimel
- Sep 5, 2016
- 4 min
KIDS NEED APPROVAL
Every person cries out, “Will someone please approve of me!” Once I took a year off from ministry for a sabbatical. I worked for the YMCA...
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Chris Schimel
- Aug 16, 2016
- 5 min
I Almost Squandered My One And Only Life
The Psalms tells us that we are granted seventy years in this life, and some eighty (Psalms 90:10). We know that medical science has...
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