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Kent Hotaling
20
MAR
2015

Transforming Faith

Transforming Faith The definition of a word only has meaning to us based on our experience of that word.  For example, the word “love” means many different things when we use it.  It may be that we like something as in “I love ice cream.”  It may mean a brotherly affection for...
03
NOV
2014

One Hundred Musings

Kay and I have been working on the ideas in “One Hundred Musings” for 60 years and I have been putting them into a book of a little over 100 pages during the summer and fall.  Hopefully, those of you who have journeyed with us will resonate with the things we have...
14
MAY
2014

Friendship

Kay and I have spent most of our lives reading about, thinking about, and experiencing friendship in many different ways. Those ideas show up in the following pages because they have given us insights into relationships with the people God has made special to us. This reflection...
15
DEC
2013

Possible Inhibitors of our fellowships

The first weekend of December Kay and I presented ideas in this piece to friends at the Mt Hermon annual retreat. We later had opportunity to discuss the ideas in depth with several good companions in the Northwest. The following is the original paper we presented with several...
04
OCT
2013

What I wish I knew

What  I Wish I Knew? The question:   After reading our piece on “Finishing Well”, Brian Baugh suggested it would be helpful if we put together responses to the question, “What do I know now that I wish I knew when I was thirty?”  I asked a few friends to respond to that question...
21
AUG
2013

The Epidemic of Loneliness

In July of 2013 I took some ideas written by Rick Baugh, added some quotes from others and sent them to most of my friends and spiritual companions. The request was for them to read and to send back their insights. The response gave me many new insights – only some of which I...
03
AUG
2013

Stepping Into Shadows

Stepping into Shadows – By Kay Hotaling             The Apostle John tells us in his first letter that we are invited into fellowship, Koinonia, or partnership with God and with the people of God and that the experience of this partnership depends upon “walking in the...
23
JUL
2013

Yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod

                  THE YEAST OF THE PHARISEES AND OF HEROD             In April Bob Hunter and I were in East Africa.  Each day we spent time studying the ideas of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.  One day we came across the statement of Jesus, “Watch out for the yeast of the...
22
JUL
2013

Reflections about a Core

Some thoughts about a Core               I wrote the following at the request of a friend in Canada who asked what my experience had taught me in praying for a province or a country.            That we will begin to see our country as Jesus sees it and we will engage in...
18
JUL
2013

Loyalty

LOYALTY – A reflection from 2 Timothy four                               The Apostle Paul sat in chains in a Roman prison praying that the small struggling fellowships scattered all over the Roman Empire might survive, grow and reproduce.  In the same way that Jesus left the...
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About Kent Hotaling

Kent HotalingFor over 50 years I have been a follower of Jesus – some of the time in ways that pleased him and other times so poorly it neither pleased him, me, or others. However, I have stayed on the journey because…

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