by Kirk Kasicki | Jan 24, 2015 | Sharing, Uncategorized
86,400 Seconds Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out...
by Kirk Kasicki | Jan 7, 2015 | Above The Roost: Reflections
You can’t live with them. You can’t live without them. There’s something irresistibl-ish about them. We grin and bear it because the nights are long. I hope that something better comes along. I know…I know. This tune from Muppets is totally...
by Kirk Kasicki | Jan 2, 2015 | Above The Roost: Reflections, Uncategorized
Let us never discount the miracles that happen all around us, every day. I have experienced physical healing. Before Ben and I started dating, we were both interns for a missionary in the Dominican Republic. One night while making dinner, the pilot light on the oven...
by Kirk Kasicki | Dec 29, 2014 | Above The Roost: Reflections, Uncategorized
God often promises something to His children and then makes them wait years for the fulfillment. Noah was told to build an ark to save his family and preserve creation because God was going to cleanse the earth of evil. Noah had work to do while He waited for the...
by Kirk Kasicki | Dec 24, 2014 | Above The Roost: Reflections
My three year old daughter has been soaking up the Nativity story. For weeks at school they went over the parts of the story, and at home we talk about that silent and holy night as we play with our Veggie Tales nativity set that was gifted to us. One of my...
by Kirk Kasicki | Dec 22, 2014 | Guest Blog
Where the Soul Finds Its Worth Despite declines in rates of unwed pregnancy in the U.S., about 820,000 unwed become pregnant each year. If a percentage is calculated statistics show 34 percent of teenagers have at least one pregnancy before they turn 20. Most...
by Kirk Kasicki | Dec 15, 2014 | Guest Blog
Resilience – His steadfast love amidst iniquity “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait...
by Kirk Kasicki | Oct 26, 2014 | Above The Roost: Reflections
This blank page has plagued me many weeks now as I repeatedly miss deadlines to get this blog posted. I have dreaded writing it just as I dread the ever impending cold weather that is just around the corner. If you know me…that’s a lot of dread. I love...
by Kirk Kasicki | Oct 24, 2014 | Sharing
You have to know how much we love Jesus. I don’t say that to brag. If nothing else it should highlight the broken-ness of all of us at The Sparrow’s Nest. Staff, board, volunteers, at some point we just all realized what a mess we were without the love of...
by Kirk Kasicki | Oct 15, 2014 | Above The Roost: Reflections
Waiting is part of ANY ministry, not just ours. Consider adoption: A couple waits years trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child. They wait through various failed fertility treatments. They wait while saving up money to adopt, wait while they apply to adopt, wait on...
