A Lenten Reflection
We hit a deer while we were driving this week. Having lived in the mountains for seven years now, friends here have told us it’s not so much a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Well, that when was Tuesday. The four…
New Year’s Reflection
With all that has transpired this year, we pray you would pause and reflect on all God is teaching you through all of its events. We find great satisfaction in that fact that He is still present, still sovereign, still our King! We have…
Calm in the Midst of…a Move
With all of our family’s belongings behind me, I found myself last month seated in a six-ton U-Haul truck. We were two hours behind schedule, moving from what was home for the last year. And our unloading crew was still an hour west down…
Who Brings You Rain?
N.B.: I wanted to share with you this timely post from my friend, Ty Hoad. May it be as meaningful to you as it was to me. Like some of you, my family has been praying for rain here in Southern California for a…
Glory Rises
For years, their fathers had only been able to dream of such a thing. And now, the Israelites had been released from their Babylonian captors. Exile was over and the opportunity before them to rebuild the Kingdom had arrived. What would it look like…
The Third Half
Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. And now abide faith, hope love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (I Corinthians 13: 6-7, 13) When…
Free from Worry
Worry. Anxiety. Fear. These struggles familiar to me, as well as those that I find are familiar to my fellow man. To be human requires struggling with issues of control, or the lack of it, and that is sure to bring upon a healthy dose of…
Good Odds Going On?
It’s warm today. And dry. In February. And the next week of weather forecast appears to bring more of the same. So it came as no big surprise—a little, for sure—to find seagulls flying overhead this morning, even though I live about an hour…
The Polar Vortex
Few of us made it through this past week without hearing of the “polar vortex” that brought a drop in thermometers to the northern part of the United States and Canada. For some, it froze soap bubbles. Others reported never seeing their town in…