by mddoebler | May 9, 2024 | Gospel-Centered Mentoring
Hagar was a nobody, an Egyptian slave woman, single and pregnant, cast out into the wilderness by her masters to fend for herself. She was hopeless…until God appeared to her and promised to bless her beyond anything she could ever have asked for or imagined. Genesis...
by mddoebler | May 9, 2024 | Gospel-Centered Mentoring
In my last post, I asked, “Who pastors the pastors?” For the past decade, Pastor Daron Lindemann has coached my husband and the other missionaries on our Asia One Team. Daron’s energy and enthusiasm for the Gospel is contagious. He adores his wife, Cara, and...
by mddoebler | Dec 24, 2021 | Devotions
John 1:16 I think American expats have all experienced some strange Christmas sights in Asia. Purple lights on glittery pink pine trees. Santa Claus in the sweltering Summer heat. For many Asian companies (like American companies), Christmas is just...
by mddoebler | Sep 5, 2021 | God Loves Nobodies!
Mark 16:9 tells us that Mary was the first person to witness the resurrected Jesus. There were a lot of people he could have appeared to first, a lot of people you would have expected him to appear to before Mary Magdalene—the 11 disciples, for example, the men he...
by mddoebler | Sep 5, 2021 | God Loves Nobodies!
Some of you might be old enough to remember the opening montage of the classic television show, ABC’s Wide World of Sports. And if you remember that, you undoubtedly remember hearing the phrase “the agony of defeat.” You can probably still see it in your mind’s eye:...
