Daniel Cooley

  • Wise Men and a Sister

    My sister wrote the poem below about the wise men, such a fun kids poem I had to publish it. OH, she is also the girl in the picture, with my brother David and our parents, when they were living in France, before I was. She is a bit older now.  So am I. Wise…

    Wise Men and a Sister
  • Christmas: A Declaration of War

    3 Christmas War Quotes from the Advent reading today. At church we gave away the Christianity Today Advent book, this one was written by Russell Moore. Excellent, but you be the judge… He is bringing the story into focus from that first prophecy, when God tells the serpent after Adam and Eve eat the fruit;…

    Christmas: A Declaration of War
  • Need a Kids Christmas Gift?

    Need a kids Christmas gift? Here you go… My Little Red Camper: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Good: The “My Little Red Adventure Books” series are my favorite books to read to my grandkids, well, to read to the one old enough to listen. This is the second book in that series.…

    Need a Kids Christmas Gift?
  • Why Doesn’t God Heal the Right People?

    I know, I need to accept that God knows what He is doing, and I don’t. Somehow that explanation always seemed too simple to me. Until now. Ann Voskamp has written a terrific blog on the topic – the best I’ve read.  THIS IS GOOD. I couldn’t find a way to share it, so I cut…

  • Hurricane Harvey Homecoming

    JoLynn and I have some missionary friends home in Houston from Bolivia, just in time to be greeted by Hurricane Harvey. Here is their story… Dear Friends,                                                                                   August 2017         It has been a horrible week!  What an awful ending to a wonderful summer!  How can I describe what we have been through.  We have…

  • How A Mennonite Buys A House: 4 Tips To Stay Married

    Originally posted on LateToEveryParty: My husband and I recently began the journey of buying our first home in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. It would be easy to assume when you and your Mennonite spouse decide to buy a home, you’d both be looking for a house. That would be wrong. YOU are looking for a house.…

  • Simplified Cooley Version

    2 Corinthians 4:7-9 in the SCV: The light of God’s power is inside me. I’m fragile, but His power is great. That’s why I’m troubled but not crushed, perplexed but not giving up, spiritually terrorized but never abandoned by God, hurled down but unbroken.  I was trying to memorize 2 Corinthians 4:7-9, and realized paraphrasing it…