Charles Cavanaugh

“Happy New Year!” We say it to friends or people we meet but don’t know. Hopefully we mean it. We wish good things for those around us and vocalize that wish in a brief, [...]

Dear Friends of the Ministry, I try to keep myself from asking the question, but when seemingly senseless things happen, it is hard not to ask “why?”.  For fourteen years, I gave my [...]

A friend and sister in Christ just posted that her family was being airlifted from Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the most recent devastating hurricane. This after nearly losing one of her [...]

It’s good to get away. Whether it’s an extended vacation, a short weekend, or a walk through the park, the change of scenery or break in the routine can be refreshing and [...]

Questions: they often linger, mysteriously, even hauntingly. Nor is it the unanswered and unanswerable questions that are necessarily the most troubling. It is often, perhaps more often, the [...]

“A long time ago in a ‘place’ far far away”, something happened that changed the course of the church, western civilization, and the world. It affected what you [...]

Three months after the election of 2016, it seems that cooler heads are not necessarily prevailing. We have had time to see our first glimpses of the Trump presidency, hear words of [...]

The world is searching for genuine joy. They may call it something else or look for it under the guise of fun or pleasure, but the basic need is still the same: joy. And what a time to [...]

Dear Friends of the Ministry, We were nearing the end of our time at P4C 2016 when an attendee approached me with some much appreciated words of thanks. I will not quote him verbatim, but he [...]

There is such a shortage of it. It is not impossible to find, but it gets crowded out by the bad news. The big three, “sin, sorrow, and death”, seem to be having their way. They own [...]