Five years ago, we purchased the web domain www.IM.Life to provide a short and easy website address for people to remember. In addition to being easy to remember, IM.Life also captures the heart of our ministry: sharing Jesus — the great “I am” — the only source of life and salvation. Jesus pointed to himself as the “way, truth and life.” IM.Life points people to the great things God is doing in the hearts and lives of the people we serve.

Recently, in working with a family preparing their estate plan, an important guideline was discussed.

“In fact, if anyone hears the word and does not do what it says, he is like a man who carefully looks at his own natural face in a mirror. Indeed, he carefully looks at himself; then, he goes away and immediately forgets what he looked like. But the one who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues to do so—since he does not hear and forget but actually does what it says—that person will be blessed in what he does” (EHV James 1:23-25).

Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ…

Andy and Mindy were young inexperienced parents. Tragically, without understanding the possible trauma it could cause, Andy shook his crying baby. The baby later started to show serious problems,so they took their baby to the hospital. Unfortunately, the child eventually died from “shaken baby syndrome.” The parents cried. The doctor reported the unintentional abuse to the authorities and the police came to arrest the father. 

Going home took on new meaning for me one day in the NIC unit (Newborn Intensive Care) at the hospital.