Posts by KARL HOSTETLER

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…

If you have been following my journey you have probably noticed that I occasionally post what I have been doing, things like hobbies that I am relearning, or working on my house. That had been part of my recovery. Unfortunately, this isn’t that. It isn’t something that I have been working on, at least since my stroke. But still, I am going to call this something that…

For practicing writing, for practicing thinking, for processing what is happening in my life, and because it is so important, I thought I would share some of my worldview. Everyone has a worldview of some type. You have one, even if you have never thought about it. It is a foundation that we build upon to understand this world we live in. Hence the name, worldview.    I…

So far, I have one entry on my newly made bucket list.  Hiking up Cucamonga peak. Or maybe it could be more aptly called a list of seemingly impossible dreams. After all, I can’t hike. I can walk for one and a half miles, as long as it is dead level. But 12 miles and 4000’ of elevation change–well it seems impossible.  So maybe it isn’t actually…

It started 54 years ago. And it started in Sears, Roebuck and Company.  Maybe you remember the store, half of it was in Montclair and half of it in Pomona, right there at the end of Indian Hill Blvd. In the middle of the store there was a wide lane running right through the store, and the county line between LA and San Bernardino ran right through…

I have been thinking about the statement I penned in my first bible. Something I wrote 36 years ago, "Every promise of God within this book I intend to believe; every command of God within this book, I purpose to keep.”  I wonder if it was foolish to say that. How often do I fail to do that? To think that I could ever do that, all…

I’m done with studying the bible. Maybe you think I’m kidding, but no, I am done with bible study.  I have three bibles. More than that actually, I probably have a dozen bibles. One-year bibles, different translations, both my parent's bibles, yeah, a lot of bibles, for the most part they live on shelves. But I have had three bibles that didn’t live on shelves. The ones…