Posts by KARL HOSTETLER

If you live in Christian circles you are likely aware of the revival at Asbury University. If not, maybe this is new. In case you wondered, I live in Christian circles, and I like revivals. Because I believe that God works in this world through the changed lives of those who respond to his call. So, I’m following what is going on at Asbury and I wanted…

I have a beautiful mind, and I am so grateful for it. As you read this, it might seem like I am complaining, but I am not, I am thinking about what is happening in my mind. My beautiful mind.  I have always been a ponderer.  I would think about things for a long time. For weeks and months, sometimes years. Having ideas sit there in my…

I had a lightbulb named Bob. It lived in the fan that was over our dining room table. There were four bulbs on the fan. Three of them worked well, but one of them didn’t. It worked intermittently.  I don’t recall how Bob was named. Maybe it was Holly, my daughter, who named it Bob. But somehow, it came to be called Bob. In his defense, it…

The first time I heard the words, deficit remediation, I was doing a personality test called strengthsfinder. I had done several personality tests over my life when I was young.  This was the first one I had done when I was old.  My pastor was getting his masters, and one of his courses required him to be certified to do the strengthsfinder test.  At that time you…

My life is fragile. It is not robust. I have been thinking about my life, my fragile life.  I remember that day after my stroke when several people came to my house to pray for me. As we talked, I was asked what I wanted them to pray for. My left eye, my numbness, my strength, they wanted some guidance as they prayed. My answer was this:…

I have been playing instead of writing. Playing in the garage making something pretty cool.   This is a 1/10 scale model of the highest platform of the bridge. The bridge that I have been doing some design work on. On the elevation it is labeled “L”.  For the last year I have been working, very sporadically, on designing and resiteing the bridge. It took 8 trips…

So I have been working on something different. If you recall, I said I wanted to post something once a week for a year, as therapy, to work on my writing. In reality, that hasn’t happened.  My last post was the 24th post this year. If you’re wondering, this is the 43th week of the year. Which is fine, but yeah, every two weeks is what I’ve…

We were discussing an idea at the BBQ after church this week. Here it is, should we focus on heaven, instead of focusing on earth. Daniel, one of our pastors had raised the question during the sermon, the first sermon in the new series called, Eternity / Where am I Headed.  I had written this on the handout, ”focus on things that last vs. trying to live…

I have always liked tools. My garage is full of them. Unfortunately, most of them will not be used anymore, not by me anyways. But I’m keeping them, at least some of them. I like that tools can help me create things, beautiful things and useful things.  Although I have a pretty robust toolbox of tools, I realize now that I am using tools of a different…

My church is currently in a series of sermons on the first three chapters of the bible. It is called “Origins”. Granted, by the time I finish this post, we will likely be studying something else. But that is fine. Its cracking me up, how God works. I started working on my last post three weeks ago. What I was planning to write about was this: I…