Soon our kids are headed back to school. For the most part, they have new backpacks, cool new lunchboxes, pencils, pens, scissors and even some brightly colored file folders. You would think that they are all ready. But they are not! They are...

The human body is an amazing creation. I am told that we can distinguish some 10,000 different smells. The tissue in our brains weighs only 3 pounds, but there are complex interactions of thousands of synapses taking place at nano-speed that allow...

The last several weeks or so have been especially challenging for me. I took a trip up to Alaska to spread my dad’s ashes along his favorite river and then headed to Vancouver to catch a cruise. But I got extremely ill and just came on home. I...

I Peter 2:5-8 directs our attention to a cornerstone. That word might be unfamiliar for some of us. It is an architectural term referring to part of a masonry building. It refers to a stone that was set very strategically. All the other stones...

When I was in the 8th grade, our Catholic school was getting ready for a graduation mass. It was a big deal and our class had several songs to sing. The nun who taught music gathered us all in the chapel for practice. She had a stack of special...

The other night I was watching a documentary on Apollo 13. At one point, they showed a view of space as the astronauts were looking out a window. It was dotted with glittering lights, stars were everywhere. That view reminded me of a summer’s night...

It is summertime, and if we interviewed 25 people laying out on the sand, we would get 25 divergent opinions regarding what constitutes eternity. On the cynical end of things, one might say, “From my rotting body flowers shall grow and I am in them...

I recently read an article by Kelly Williams entitled, “10 Things I Learned About Life as a Christian.” Kelly is a pastor from Colorado who can turn a phrase and grab your attention. Those ten things that he has learned are worth our consideration....

It is always fun to remember your “firsts.” We all cherish the remembrance of our first boyfriend or girlfriend, our first kiss, our first job and that wonderful first paycheck. I also clearly remember the first time I tried to memorize scripture....

Discouragement is the ugly little sister of depression. It isn’t severe, but it can be debilitating. It usually doesn’t require medication, but it does require attention. And it does drain the joy out of everyday living. Discouragement comes in all...

Summer is upon us, and it is the time for reading, not because we must, but because we want to. I have always been an avid reader, but sometimes the rest of the world doesn’t seem to see the joy in books that I do. In fact, the reading habits of...

One of my favorite Old Testament stories centers around Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathon, David’s dear friend. His story occurs in II Samuel chapters 4 through 16 where he is clearly a type of redeemed sinner. In fact, he is a lot like you and me!...