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December 2022

December 28, 2022

Thoughtless Short Visions: Fire Extinguishers for Floods

"The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a...

December 21, 2022

The Gift Most Precious: Live in Heavenly Peace

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God,...

December 14, 2022

The Many or The One: Introvert Anonymous

I don't really remember my first talk in junior Sunday School. I've been told that...

December 07, 2022

Miracles of Lights: Our Savior Has Come

Christmas is a time of lights. Retailers, charities, civic groups, families, and churches display lights...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Testimony From Afar: Eternal Gifts of the Wise Men

As a child growing up on the U.S. East Coast in a home without...

November 23, 2022

Time of Affliction/Time of Blessing

When Jonah finally accepted his calling to cry repentance to the people of notoriously wicked...

November 16, 2022

“Good For Us”—Sufficient For All

Six months before He was to give His life, Jesus took Peter, James, and John...

November 10, 2022

“That I Might See”–Or not.

He gave me my eyes that I might see ...

November 02, 2022

From Butterfly to Blobfish: To Wonder as I Worship

My kindergarten student held out an autumn leaf that was part green and part red....

October 2022

October 26, 2022

A Lens For Eternity

"Welcome to Godhood 101." Every semester I start the Eternal Family class I teach...

October 19, 2022

For A Sacred Life Purpose

In approximately 1884, widowed Sarah Winchester, heiress of a world-renowned fortune, began building her house....

October 12, 2022

The Tongue: Fire in a Time of Good or Evil

The anti-Christ Korihor traveled throughout the land, his "great swelling words" proclaiming lies and blasphemy...

October 05, 2022

Joy of Dancing in the Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW9dBT9k28o&t=148s) Some of my songs have a creation story. Some just come to life and...

September 2022

September 28, 2022

To Thank and to Endure

Cross country was the first sport for every one of our kids. My wife started...

September 21, 2022

The Holy Spirit: Our Light and Our Life

In a poetic masterpiece for children, Hello Earth (2021), Joyce Sidman assumes children's voices, asking...

September 14, 2022

The Judging Temptation: Not Easy to Change

When scribes and Pharisees brought to Christ a woman taken in adultery, claiming a law...

September 07, 2022

Wisdom, Love, and Protection to Share

On a cool summer evening, Larry greeted our family at the door, dressed in a...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

A Friend With Infinite Love

A beloved hymn of longing for peace in pain includes the words "In my Gethsemine

August 24, 2022

Trust to Rescue Souls

There is much to doubt or fear in today's world: including hopes that COVID is...

August 17, 2022

Change That Converts and Endures

When told by Christ that "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the...

August 10, 2022

A Light in Darkness

We had been in the cave before. We had been part of a tour with...

August 03, 2022

Lead Me Home

When I was in kindergarten through fourth grade, we lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The...

July 2022

July 27, 2022

Pottage Now

Most bible readers are familiar with Esau, who returned from his hunt feeling weak...

July 12, 2022

Connecting Past the Covering

Directing a tour to the Holy Land was a blessing for me. I loved being...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

My Daughter Is a Wrestler

For years we have been a wrestling family! We love football, track, and basketball...

June 22, 2022

To Savor Through the Ages

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour,...

June 15, 2022

The Waiting Place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6wErTzw-A&t=1s I don’t love waiting. You probably don’t either. I’ve never heard someone say, “I...

June 08, 2022

God’s Power in Weakness

When I'm watching sports, I love to see the underdog win. There have been lots...

June 01, 2022

A Hymn for All Seasons

I love the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. When I hear it, I...

May 2022

May 25, 2022

Christ’s Pure and Perfect Love

To the well-known incident of the woman taken in "the very act" of adultery, whose...

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