Unafraid: Trusting God in an Unsafe World
In May of 1978, a fellow classmate calmly walked into Susie Davis’s eighth-grade Austin, Texas, classroom with a rifle and murdered her beloved English …
Moving Forward While Stepping Back into My High School Reunion
Earlier this month, I attended my 50th + 1 high school reunion (canceled last year due to COVID-19). School reunions can be traumatic events, …
Listening for the Gentle Whisper
My mind is often a whirlwind of tangled thoughts. Scenarios of past events and imagined things that may never even happen loop endlessly, gaining …
Blue Antiqued Furniture and a Birchbark Canoe
God sometimes answers prayers that seem unimportant in the big picture of our lives. But he has his reasons, and they often exceed our …
Like the Tree Planted by Streams of Water
Trees must hold considerable significance for God because they are mentioned all through the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. They served as markers on …
Why are Followers of Christ Hated?
Wouldn’t you think that a person who did his best to live by godly principles would be loved, or at least accepted, by most …
Splendor
I never use the word splendor in speaking or writing, yet it is one of my treasured words.* Every time I read or hear …