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October 2024

October 23, 2024

Deadly Surprise: The Rip Current

While swimming comfortably at the beach, you suddenly feel yourself being drawn away from the...

August 2024

August 28, 2024

Personal Progress

Making significant changes in our lives may seem to require superhuman effort. As we struggle,...

August 07, 2024

Lifesaving Buoys: Safety in Dark Waters

In dark waters, lifesaving buoys can make the difference between safety and disaster. We and...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Rising Together in Troubled Times

Everyone has down times. And reaching out to each other—rising together—can change lives. I love...

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May 22, 2024

Our Path, His Plan

"In all thy ways acknowledge [God] and he shall direct thy paths” (Proverbs 3:5-5). As...

May 15, 2024

The Push-Ups–A Parable

A Christian school high school teacher staged his own parable to help students understand Christ's...

January 2024

January 10, 2024

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream of equity and freedom for the United States....

August 2023

August 16, 2023

Higher Ground: Our Safety and Salvation

At 3:31 a.m. on February 27, 2010, our Santiago, Chile world was in turmoil, shaken...

July 2023

July 26, 2023

The Trust Matrix

Amid life’s journeys we might sometimes find ourselves trusting in God, whereas other times we...

April 2023

April 19, 2023

Working Together to Win: Team-Coach Dedication

As we walked out of the arena after an amazing victory, everyone felt the excitement...

April 12, 2023

Out of Darkness With God’s Light

“I feel it rolling in . . . It feels black as night/stealing all...

March 2023

March 01, 2023

Onward Impaired: Dangers in Faulty Vision

It was a small irritation. The windshield wiper on the driver’s side needed attention. I...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

Choose to Climb: Higher Still

Agency, the privilege to make our own choices and determine our own paths, is...

December 2022

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,...

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 14, 2022

The Judging Temptation: Not Easy to Change

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

August 2022

August 10, 2022

A Light in Darkness

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

June 2022

June 08, 2022

God’s Power in Weakness

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

April 2022

April 27, 2022

The Blessing of Divine Delay

I hate waiting—maybe you do too. But I’ve noticed that God sometimes has us wait...

March 2022

March 16, 2022

Courage for the Centuries

When Paul, emerging from his eventful voyage toward Rome, was met by some brethren, “he...

February 2022

February 09, 2022

Broken Chains, Safe Connection

  Why do children willingly submit to pain for a game called Red Rover? Two...

December 2021

December 08, 2021

God’s Love in Our Time of Need

The first (and only) time that I met my only brother was when I was...

November 2021

November 17, 2021

Obeying When You Don’t Understand Why

Would you throw your beautiful baby out the window? Of course you wouldn’t! But some...

November 03, 2021

Trials and Sycamine Trees

Have you ever had a trial that feels like it will never go away? Like,...

August 2021

August 04, 2021

Are You Ever Disappointed With God?

Greater understanding comes when we see God as He truly is—a loving Father teaching us...

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