Running For The True Prize
HEIDI’S STORY A young woman named Heidi was invited to one of our church services. She was very hungry for some direction and fulfillment...
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Chris Schimel
Jun 22, 20163 min
Hopelessly Entwined
She was hopelessly entwined with a lifestyle that refused to let her go…. Felicia was a beautiful girl. She was actually the billboard...
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Chris Schimel
Jun 6, 20164 min
TO CATCH A THIEF
One day we came to work at the church and found that we had been robbed. Our sound system had been heisted; tape decks, mixer board,...
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Chris Schimel
May 23, 20164 min
HAVEN’T I DONE ENOUGH FOR GOD TODAY?
I had volunteered to help do spring clean-up work at a Christian camp in the Front Range of the Rockies near Boulder, Co in preparation...
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Chris Schimel
May 10, 20163 min
THE VOICE…God’s Calling
Neither my wife nor I ever wanted to go into the ministry. Much of it had to do with the fact that we weren’t living as we should. Life...
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Chris Schimel
Apr 26, 20164 min
THE TERROR BY NIGHT
The second year we were in California we experienced our first earthquake tremor. It was nothing more than that and we were all smiles...
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Chris Schimel
Apr 12, 20163 min
DO YOU HAVE AN APPROVAL GRID?
If you were to go to your physician’s office with a pain in your body somewhere, as you explained to your doctor where the pain was and...
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Chris Schimel
Mar 29, 20163 min
I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO KILL EACH OTHER
In one of the churches we pastored there were two college girls (Debbie & Charla) who roomed together and taught our children’s church...
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Chris Schimel
Mar 15, 20164 min
MY FISH STORY
I worked the giant for as long as I dared and managed to get it up on top of the wall. My childhood home was in Westfield, New York, a...
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Chris Schimel
Feb 29, 20164 min
I UNDERSTAND DEPRESSION FIRST HAND
The thoughts in my head were too terrible to shape into words. I was pastoring a church in Southern California when the combination of my...
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Chris Schimel
Feb 15, 20164 min
I FOUND BURIED TREASURE
When I was twelve I was the adventurous type. I lived in a small town in Western New York and there was much opportunity to explore the...
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Chris Schimel
Feb 3, 20163 min
There is a God in Heaven Who Reveals Secrets
Betty was a lady in one of the churches where we served as pastors. I was recently asked to return to speak at her funeral. Betty was a...
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Chris Schimel
Jan 4, 20164 min
A GREATER RESOLVE TO STAND
We all sat speechless. We were in shock. For several years in addition to pastoring a church, I oversaw fifteen to twenty churches in our...
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Chris Schimel
Dec 14, 20155 min
How Can a God of Love Allow All the Suffering in the World?
And what does that have to do with skunks? I was surfing through the channels one Saturday afternoon and landed on a documentary where...
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Chris Schimel
Nov 30, 20154 min
THE DAY MY SON LEFT ME FOR DEAD
We were in a hurry to get down the mountain we were on near Durango, Colorado. We had to get to a predetermined elevation so we could...
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Chris Schimel
Nov 17, 20154 min
I NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE HIM AGAIN
I had just come to a new church that was very small and very dry spiritually. I had been there three weeks. I knew that the church needed...
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Chris Schimel
Nov 10, 20153 min
If looks could kill, I’d have fallen dead on the spot.
During a year’s sabbatical I was taking from the ministry, I substitute taught for a kindergarten class. One day a boy named Freddie was...
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Chris Schimel
Oct 20, 20153 min
LITTLE PERSON, BIG PERSON
This is the actual drawing that Gina keeps in her Bible to this day. Every day of her married life she felt the weight of her husband’s...
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Chris Schimel
Oct 15, 20153 min
I THOUGHT I HAD THE SITUATION WELL IN HAND UNTIL GOD GOT INVOLVED
I played basketball my whole life until I was forty-five. Then my knees couldn’t stand the abuse any more. While living in Southern...
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Chris Schimel
Oct 6, 20153 min
THE BLAME GAME
The other day my wife Shirley and I were riding down the road and without notice or awareness of what was happening, we were in a cycle...
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