“Fascinating and Provocative Columns by Jack Popjes – The Wordman”
Posts
- A Kick In The Pants
- A Poke in the Ribs
- A Bonk on the Head
- Brief Introduction to Jack’s New Column, The Mandate
- Mandate, God, Prayer, or Coincidence?
- Mandate, Emotion, Power, and Language
- Notice, Remember, and Tell
- THE MANDATE, Tears at Easter
- Part Two of Notice, Remember and Tell Stories
- THE MANDATE, The Book of Heaven
- Does God Speak in Dreams Today?
- THE MANDATE, God Goes Before . . . and After
- The Dark Side of Dreams
- Regrets of my life, Part One
- Regrets of My Life, Part Two
- Lessons from a Coffee Drinker
- What Happened to Jack’s Blog Posts?
- What the Recruiter Didn’t Tell Me.
- Part Two, What the Recruiter Didn’t Tell Me–the Upside
- On Being Real
- Psalm 23: Motive to Fire God
- Jesus and the Flight Attendant
- Lend Me Your Ears
- From Tiny Seed to Huge Tree
- Needed: Spinners of Goat Hair
- More Readers, Reading More.
- Don’t Leave them Asking, So What? What Now?
- Why Should Christians Need Encouragement?
- From Economics to Theology: How the Canelas Understand the Good News
- Putting Shoes on Prayers
- I’d Rather Be . . . .
- Ten Actions That Will Ruin Your Life
- Something Worse than Mindless Bureaucracy
- Ten Actions That Will Save Your Life
- I Know You Will Be Disappointed, But ….
- Happy New Year 2012
- How to Get What You Want in 10 Minutes a Day
- The Other Sure-Fire Way to Generate a Thankful Spirit
- Can We Really Trust God? Two Facts to Consider
- The Shocking Truth About Jack Popjes: How to Read 52 Books a Year
- Over Half-Way to My First Million–The Charles Dickens Way
- Confessions of a Hypocrite
- How to be Happily Productive in Old Age: 7 Testimonials From Retired Volunteers
- How to Panic Satan and Get Him Angry
- What Every Man Needs, But Few Get
- Comments on “What Every Man Needs But Few Get”
- Six Things a Man Must Do to Get What Every Man Needs, But Few Get
- Do You Know the Two Most Revealing Words in the English Language?
- How a Simple Easter Story Affected a Church and the Denomination
- How to Avoid the One Fatal Mistake That Can Sink Your Project
- Five Decades of Marriage, Family and Ministry
- How to Be Inducted Into the Hall of Fame . . . or Not
- Do Men Have Feelings?
- To Bribe or Not to Bribe, Is That the Question?
- Why Things Go Wrong When Our Spouse is Away.
- How to Make Yourself Look Good Now but Feel Bad Later
- Bible Translation: More Complex Than You Think . . . Way More!
- Three Steps to Being a Hero to Your Kids This Fathers Day
- The Day the Bottom Fell Out of Everything
- When the Situation is Deadly, Dangerous and Desperate
- The Dark, Dismal and Depressing Months of July and August Are Upon Us
- Grandson Sees Impact of God’s Word in Jamaican Language
- Two Reasons Why Other Nations Value Canadian Organizations
- What? Rest Before the Work is Done? No Way!
- Homo Narrans, Story-Telling Man
- The Unwelcome Request
- Our Life Theme Scripture
- The Unwelcome Request—the Rest of the Story
- Jack, Your Translation Has Too Many Words
- I Embarrassed Myself in Grade Four Because of my Dad’s Old Bible
- Great Stories, Jack, But Are They True?
- Patience Testing Trends in Current Church Music
- Trends in Church Music Part 2, Towards a Solution
- But How Do You Know If These Bible Translations Are Accurate?
- How Do You Know If the Translation is Understood by the Readers?
- Our Celestial Mechanic
- Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment
- How Churches Miss Out on One-Third of Their Mandate
- Blessed Christmas & Prosperous New Year
- Ten Things I Really Want
- The Day Satan Shot Himself In The Foot
- Are You Ready to Praise God for TAKs?
- Giving Advice: How to Turn a Teflon Attitude into Velcro
- The Explosion in the Godly Software Factory
- The Powerful Weapon the Church Is Neglecting
- New Bible Translation Tools for a New Generation
- Taking Risks or Taking Care
- Thoughts on My 75th Birthday
- God’s Preferred Way of Working
- How Much Is Left to Do in the Great Commission?
- Just a Little Bit Pregnant
- The One Thing That Trumps Commitment
- A Tickle in the Funny Bone
- Whose Money is it Anyway?
- Been There, Done That, I Understand
- Statistics That Bring Shame to Churches
- Allah and Culturally Relevant Bible Translations
- The Survey, The Problem, A Solution, and an Ad
- Our Prayers: Driven by Passionate Emotion or by Thoughtful Planning?
- Bible Translation Enriches the Worldwide Church
- Donors Beware
- Good News from a Distant Land
- Whatever Happened to All Those Pentecost Converts?
- Return of an Old Love Affair
- You Don’t Have to Own It to Enjoy It
- Be Like God, Be Creative
- It’s Enough to Make You Sick
- Discouraged? Check This Out.
- How to Cook up a Better Marriage
- A Special Posting to Celebrate the Launch!
- Jumping to Conclusions: Bad Exercise
- What Makes Us Tick (Part 1)
- What Makes Us Tick (Part 2)
- What Does “Thank You” Mean Anyway?
- The Why & How of Bible Translation: What Every Christian Should Know, But Few Do . . . Very Few
- A Blessed Christmas Season to You All
- At Last, A Blog Post From Jack
- God’s Story about Cheryl: How I Blew it as a Dad
- Leaving a Legacy of God-Stories: The Why & How
- A Couple’s Most Important Day
- Itinerary for Jack’s Northern California Speaking Tour
- Canada Combats Negative Side Effects of New Technology for Churches
- Who is the Boss, You or Your Stuff?
- Why Is It So Hard?
- Holy Hilarity Sunday
- How I Failed and Then Made it Worse
- A Mother’s Day Tribute
- Bible Translators’ Biggest Challenge: Part One
- Five Reasons Why the Church Might Not Keep On Supporting Bible Translation
- My Service on a Dragons’ Den Panel
- Just a Coincidence or The Hidden Hand of God?
- The One Necessary Thing
- Singing Passionately Someday
- A Special Anniversary
- What Happens to Christian Young People At College?
- I Distinctly Remember Forgetting That
- College Reunions: To Go, or Not to Go, No Question About It.
- What? A Lesson from Knickknacks?
- Slow Down and Live
- A Conversation in Prison
- When God Slams the Door
- Hopeful to Heartsick
- When We Believe Things About God That Are Not True
- The Sprint to the Finish Line
- We Remember Them
- A Homework Question
- The Surprise Visitor
- Oh, Those Begats!
- What the Angel Gabriel Saw
- A Fair and Simple Question
- Seven Reasons Why We Translate the Bible
- What Makes Us Human?
- What Makes Us Human. Part 2
- In Search of Beauty
- A Valentine Bouquet: Seven Ways to Improve Your Marriage
- How to Raise a Missions Support Partnership Team
- Attention Frustrated Apple Computer Users: A Fix for the Horrible Brown Background
- In Praise of Single Women Missionaries
- Drop Your Phone and Drive!
- 77: The Double Seven
- To Focus on the Message, Eliminate Distraction
- From Chaotic Confusion to Clear Wisdom in Four Steps
- What Does It Take to Satisfy God?
- Focus on the Worldwide Task and Hold Your “End Times” Opinions Loosely
- The Penny-Pinching God and Other Weird Beliefs
- Death, Disasters, and Our Response
- A Thank You Letter To My Mother
- Jesus and Gender Equality
- The Bulldozer of Pentecost
- The Church is a Family. Not!
- What Is Your View of Time?
- How My Father Showed He Loved Me
- Preparing for the Last Reunion
- Summer Blog Break
- From Negative to Positive Thinking
- Missionaries in Dangerous Situations
- Special Post: 7 Essential Habits of Christian Writers
- An Amazing Letter
- Life Experiences versus Material Things
- Why I Write My Private Prayers
- The Parable of the Truck Stuck in the Mud
- When There’s Just No Word for It
- The Solution God Provided
- A Routine I Developed as a Writer that is Practical for Any Christian
- Really? I Had No Idea!
- Hansje and the Truck of Terror–A Story From My Childhood
- Black Friday Shopping Frenzy
- The Special Christmas Feast
- Out with the Old: In with the New
- Do Not Despise the Day of Small Beginnings
- They Mean Well But They Just Don’t Get It
- Work: A Curse or a Gift?
- The Romance of Foreign Missions Work
- Cross-Cultural Missions is Contagious
- My Marriage Do-Over
- It’s a Nice Problem to Have, But How Do You Handle It?
- When Work Gets Boring
- A New Confrontation with an Old Enemy
- How Long Did It Take to Translate That Bible?
- Good News for Every Culture
- The Mother Who Confessed Her Secret After 22 Years
- Our Honda and My Wife’s Cancer
- “Birds of a Feather Stick Together” is for the Birds.
- But if Not . . .
- The Discipline of Celebration: The Story
- The Discipline of Celebration: The Calendar
- Prayer for a Father
- Can You Explain These Coincidences Without Getting Theological?
- The Power of Language
- The Search for the Book of Heaven
- Psalm 23: A Reason to Fire God?
- God’s Problem and His Solution
- What Happened to Jack’s InSights & OutBursts?
- How Was Your Summer? As Good as Mine?
- Five Missionary Decisions that Turned Out Well
- China and Alberta: Surprising Similarities
- From Economics to Theology: How the Canelas Understand the Good News
- Give Thanks for What?
- The Day the Teacher Learned a Lesson
- It’s All About Family
- Freedom OF Religion or Freedom FROM Religion?
- Just Out for a Jog . . . Well, Not Quite
- The Kurious Kase of the Kombative Koreas
- A Talker Learns to Listen, Finally, at Last!
- When Must We Peel the Tape Off?
- Solitude and Silence: The Keys to Unlocking the Treasures Within
- Hansje Enjoys a Special Christmas Feast
- The Other Side of “Silence and Solitude”
- Some Golden Oldies and Some Shiny Newbies
- How to Raise a Support Partnership Team
- “I’d Rather Be . . . .”
- God-Stories–A Powerful Weapon Against Satan
- A Valentine About My Josephine
- Didn’t See That Coming!
- On Being Real
- Recommendations to be Generous from Three Utterly Different Sources
- Eliminate Distraction, No Matter What the Cost
- Why Is It So Hard?
- Our Triune God Loves His People to Work in Community Just as He Does.
- l’m Sick.
- Mother’s Day and Gender Equality: Some Thoughts
- In Search of Beauty
- That Dumb Computer in Our Head
- The Story of Pentecost in Two Contrasting Versions
- Summer Blogging Break
- Try it, You Might Surprise Yourself!
- Twists and Turns in Life’s Road
- Not Just a Warning
- A Remembrance Day Special Feature
- How God Launched My Preaching Career from a Sewage Trench
- Our Search for Direction in Life
- The Speaking and Writing Ministry Path Widens
- Hanukkah: An Appropriate Reminder in Today’s Canada
- What Gabriel Saw
- A New Habit for a New Year
- The Two Notes
- The Letter from Ireland
- A Valentine Paraphrase of the Love Chapter
- A Letter from Brazil
- What Billy Graham Said About Bible Translation
- What We Want and What We Need
- What Does “Thank you” Mean Anyway?
- Thoughts on Reaching Eighty
- The Easter Confusion
- How God Stamped His Word “Holy” to the Canela
- Three Different Languages: Three Impactful Bibles
- The PE and TE Puzzle
- Why Should Christians Need Encouragement?
- “I’d Rather be . . .”
- Money CAN Buy Happiness
- When the Situation is Deadly, Dangerous and Desperate.
- How To Become a Hero to Your Kids: A Three Step Program
- The Day the Bottom Fell Out of Everything
- Announcing Jack’s Summer Blogging Break
- The Misadventures of Hansje: The Boy Who Kept His Guardian Angel Busy
- Summer Blogging Break is Over—It’s Story Time Again.
- “Only One Thing is Necessary”
- Aiming at a Moving Target
- Jumping to Conclusions: Bad Exercise
- Is Your Church a Family? Probably Not.
- The Canela Creation Story.
- Halloween, the Celebration of Fear
- That Other Good Friday
- How God Shapes and Equips His Servants
- A Birthday Present for Jesus
- What the Angel Gabriel Saw
- What is the Worst Sin?
- Just a Little Bit Pregnant?
- How Churches Miss Out on One-Third of Their Mandate
- Why Do We Listen to Others?
- The Good Old Days
- The Time to Speak
- Jesus and the Sign of Jonah: Easter Thoughts
- How the Hero Overcame the Villain
- Learning to Laugh at Myself
- Whatever Happened to All Those Pentecost Converts?
- The Last Before the Summer Blogging Break
- The Fires in Brazil–Fake News
- Comfort in Culture Shock
- Really? I Had No Idea!
- An Astonishing Letter
- Climate Change
- Black Friday Shopping Frenzy
- The Language of Christmas
- How to Start the New Year Happy
- Commitment is Not Enough
- From Depression to Joy
- A Valentine’s Day Commitment
- The Day I Made Myself Look Good But Felt Rotten Later
- In Praise of Women Missionaries
- Still Bearing Fruit in Old Age
- God’s Easter Redo Icon
- Letting Ourselves Feel the Feelings.
- Mothers Buy a Better Future
- The End, the Start, and the Middle
- From Chaotic Confusion to Clear Wisdom in Four Steps
- How COVID-19 is Making Us More Human.
- Meditating on Light
- The Four Words Challenge
- The Surprise in Church
- The 30th Anniversary
- The “Useless Church People” Story
- You Cannot Learn Another Language Unless You Have This Ability.
- The New Name
- Christians’ Weird Thinking About Wealth
- Christians’ Right Thinking About Money
- How To Doubly Please God
- How God Prepared me to Trust Him
- The Best Question I Ever Answered with YES!
- Why Does Our Almighty, All-knowing God Want us to Pray?
- The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it.
- So, Whom Do We Trust?
- Slander, Lies and Attacks Hurt, But In The End . . .
- Why and How I Observe Lent This Year
- Of Stories and Storytellers
- The Jesus Way to Pray
- Holy Hilarity Sunday
- On Being Intentional Grandparents