Today’s message was written by Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Friend of Dial Hope, do you sometimes feel like your problems are so overwhelming that you can barely keep your head above water? In the Bible, God tells you to cast “all your care upon him,” knowing he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:7) […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. In John 1:5 we read, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not over it.” Friend of Dial Hope, many of you are groping in darkness right now. Separation and divorce come, but they always seem to happen […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. A young woman stood before Beethoven’s piano in a Vienna museum. Presently she struck a few discordant notes. “I suppose,” she said to an attendant, “that many noted musicians have inspected this instrument.” “Oh, yes,” replied the man. “Recently Paderewski was here.” “Paderewski!” […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. It is an old story, but it is true, and it is good. The famous British author John Ruskin one night in his later years sat watching a lamplighter who, with a torch in his hand, was lighting the lamps on a distant […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. The pain of this world is an opportunity for us to be an instrument of God’s redemptive healing. Or said another way, we have the opportunity to be an ambassador for Christ amid someone else’s pain. Dr. James Stewart, the brilliant professor of […]
Friend of Dial Hope, one of the common mistakes in religion is made by people who try to live on negatives, people who are whiners. They are against that but do not seem to be emphatically for something of their own allegiance. They can tell you with deep emotion what they are against, but if […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. We often see a sign over stores reading “under new management.” Friend of Dial Hope, when God takes over the management of our lives we may still blunder, and we may still present the same old face to the world, but there […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Psalm 121 is one of my favorites. “l will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth.” In THE MESSAGE, Eugene Peterson translates Psalm 121 this way: […]
Today’s message was written by my friend Roger Kunkel. A preacher got his congregation’s attention one Sunday when he said: “Some of the happiest days of my life were spent in the arms of another man’s wife.” After a long pause, he added, “My mother.” A younger preacher, after hearing that, thought it would add […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. In Psalm 8:1 we read: “O, Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” The sun was taking its last breath of the day and the moon began to shine in its place of honor. Only a small […]
