Years ago, I was in Austria on a family vacation.  We visited the castle there and it was amazing, but the thing I remember most was a simple church off the beaten path.  I had been in several cathedr...  Read More

A few days ago, my daily Bible reading plan had me read Ezekiel 4.  In that chapter the prophet is asked to act out the siege of Jerusalem. God tells his prophet to lay on his left side for 390 days, ...  Read More

We are not a patient people, or should I say, I am not a patient person.  I was in line at a fast-food restaurant the other day and it took longer than I thought it should!  I found myself aggravated ...  Read More

I am often on a quest for solitude.  Living in a home with my beautiful wife, two of my four daughters, two cats, and three dogs…it is often a futile search…that is unless I get up early.Almost every ...  Read More

I love the creativity of God.  G.K. Chesterton in his book, Orthodoxy, talked about the vitality of children, “They always say, ‘Do it again,’ and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly ...  Read More

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, my favorite line of all poems, “Earth’s crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God, but only he who sees, takes off his shoes.  The rest sit around and ...  Read More

There is a line in Mary Oliver’s “The Wren from Carolina,” that speaks of the, “wren in the hedge, above me, with his blazing song.”I don’t get to sit outside every morning, but every morning that I d...  Read More

I read someone not long ago referring to the Artic Tern…it’s a bird famous for its migration…flying some 12,000 miles from its Artic breeding grounds to the Antarctic and back again each year.  By the...  Read More

I’ve had more spiritual conversations with believers than I can count, but one thing seems to be a common denominator in all of our lives…I just haven’t met anyone who says, “I’m really happy with my ...  Read More

Years ago, I led a mission trip to Africa with some friends.  It was large group, and we had three things going every single day: Medical Clinics, time in the villages teaching children, and open crus...  Read More

I saw a picture the other day of two beach chairs on the sand turned away from the water and thought about our life. It seems strange to me that the two chairs are turned away from the water…isn’t the...  Read More

I rarely get out of bed saying, “Praise God, it’s morning.”  I tend to wake up saying, “Oh Lord, it’s morning…how can it already be time to get up.”  The days that I have to get up at 4 am or earlier ...  Read More