Jan Gompper
Jan Gompper spent most of her career teaching theatre at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee. She also served six years as a cohost for Time of Grace during its start-up years. She has collaborated on two faith-based musicals, numerous Christian songs, and has written and codirected scripts for a Christian video series. She and her husband now reside in the Tampa area, where she continues to practice her acting craft and coach aspiring acting students as opportunities arise. She also assists with Sunday school and other church-related activities.
Stand your ground
When my oldest niece was about three years old, she had been naughty one morning during her preschool Sunday school class. When the teacher…
Life lessons from “The Chosen”
My husband and I have been watching the faith-based TV series The Chosen. While biblical scholars may take issue with some of the story…
A day at a time
When I was growing up, my mother frequently reminded me to take it a day at a time. I wasn’t good at doing so…
Don’t sing songs to a heavy heart
Have you ever experienced a serious loss, setback, or disappointment and received cliché encouragement from friends or relatives? “It’s always darkest before the dawn.”…
Do look up!
In screenwriter David Sirota’s political/social satire Don’t Look Up, an astrology student and her professor discover that a comet, large enough to destroy the…
No ifs, ands, or buts
Do you suffer from Big But Syndrome? No, this isn’t a devotion on weight loss or exercise plans—check the spelling. The problem I’m speaking…
Come as you are—live as he is
Many church websites today display the motto: Come as you are! This is an encouragement for people to understand that Jesus (and their church)…
Despair or prayer?
For 430 years the people of Israel had been slaves in Egypt until God heard their cries and used Moses to lead them out…
The end of “fake news”
Are you as tired as I am of hearing the term fake news? It seems we’ve been bombarded with this idiom ever since the…
Soul reform
In the wake of each tragic school shooting, our country debates whether to have restrictions on the ownership of assault weapons. Second Amendment legalists…
May our victory not be hollow!
For pro-lifers, the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade was a historical triumph. Personally, I thought this day would never come. Of…
That’s entitlement!
A senator on the reelection trail was at a luncheon sponsored by some of his constituents. He was very hungry, so when the woman…