What happens, you ask, when one does not go to the dentist for years? Listen to the cautionary tale and grow wiser. Episode 56 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock discusses the difference it makes in how we ply our toothbrushes, in both the physical and spiritual worlds.

Perhaps it’s the nature of a European cathedral, of entering the Catholic world with a Protestant’s clothes, but I always feel like I’m interrupting—like I’m getting away with something. Opaque stain glass windows of diminutive size filter any light that may be trying to peek through the clouds. A cloudy day magnifies this effect. The beauty of a European cathedral is stunning, overwhelming, beautiful. The craftsmanship of a bygone era leaves me speechless every time. Even without the religious overtones that accompany walking past and in to St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Vienna) or St. Mark’s Cathedral (Venice) or the Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), the soaring architecture and design is almost a religion to itself. But then I discovered a photographic technique that changed how I feel about cathedrals. Listen to Episode 55 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock, and see if it changes how you feel too.

Do you ever feel like you’re in a holding pattern? That maybe your life is wasted? That you’re not making a difference right here, right now? Listen to Episode 53 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock, and be encouraged with the truth that God is in the redemption business.

Do you ever feel like you’re in a holding pattern? That maybe your life is wasted? That you’re not making a difference right here, right now? Listen to Episode 53 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock, and be encouraged with the truth that God is in the redemption business.

Are you blessed with strong memories? Are you confounded with haunting recollections? If two things are connected in your mind, then one can act as a trigger for the other. Episode 52 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock encourages us to hang a prayer on your experience.

Because our home is a hub of action and activity, there is an allure to simply piling up the dishes after a meal and letting them wait until the end of the day. That simple act of procrastination, however, makes the work at the end of the day much more involved, doesn’t it? I tend to let the dishes pile up. Everything dries. Things are hard to clean. Slowly and suddenly, a simple necessity of life is now a large project to undertake. Next time you do the dishes, use them as a reminder of the daily opportunities we have to turn to Jesus and ask for a little bit of soap and water. Episode 51 of Presently Engaged with Mandy Pallock will support you as you do the dishes.

As believers, we talk about Easter Sunday, and rightfully so. We celebrate Christ’s resurrection, His death and life, and the amazing, life-altering truth that Christ has paid the penalty for our sin. Hallelujah! And then the sun comes up on the day after Easter. Easter Monday. What does it mean? What difference does it make? In the light of the Resurrection, and that our Savior conquered death and hell, how then shall we live? Episode 50 of the Presently Engaged Podcast will encourage you to keep the resurrection in your heart, all the year long!

Once upon a time, when all was perfect and right and beautiful in the world, God planted a garden. After the Creation, after making man, God planted a garden. The first vocation in the Bible is gardening, and it was done by God Himself. God is a gardener.…we see this theme of God as the Gardener throughout Scripture. Jesus the Messiah even embraced gardening Himself. Maybe gardening is a holy vocation. It must mean something to make green things grow, to prepare the soil and turn over the ground, to plant seeds and nourish life. Where is your garden, friend? Listen to Episode 49 of the Presently Engaged Podcast. May Jesus’ followers be mistaken for the gardener, serving where we are called, loving where we are placed.