Happy Holidays?

December 30, 2011

In my son Jack’s 1st grade class, the students are intentionally exposed to a host of various significant holidays that take place roughly around this time of the year. Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa… It’s an attempt to teach the children that there are other things happening at this time of the year besides the pervasive […]

It Is Well…

November 18, 2011

His kids have grown up all over the world. He and his wife have served the Lord faithfully from Papua New Guinea to Northern Ireland to the United States. He and his wife have devoted their life’s energy and effort to seeing people’s lives changed vitally by the life-giving Truth of God’s Word. And this […]

Be at peace…

November 6, 2011

Over the past few weeks, my family has been aware of and involved in the lives of a family that we didn’t know very well. But God led us to love and serve the Prairie family at a time when the the dad and husband, Joel, was in the late stages of a battle against […]

Stop and Think…

November 2, 2011

Fire-fighters, Police Officers, Soldiers… and me. What do we have in common? What would put me in the same group as heroes like the above? Not my technical skills, certainly. Not the esteem that they get in our communities. And not the bravery they tap in to. If not those, what then? Split second decisions […]

The Same I AM…

October 17, 2011

It’s a ‘classic’ Bible story. Moses, having somewhat recently taken the life of an Egyptian, has fled from the comfortable life he knew as the ‘grandson’ of the then Pharaoh and traded it in for the life of a nomadic Midianite. The man who had likely tasted the best of what civilization at that time had to offer, […]

Our Help

August 26, 2011

The song “Oh God Our Help in Ages Past” was brought to mind by an author I was reading this morning. A unique contrast takes place in the first two verses. God is our shelter from the storm (very pertinent right now!) and yet, it’s in the shadow of what is surely the most mighty […]

At The Start | Be Thou My Vision

August 15, 2011

We’re a week away from the beginning of another semester. The beginning of two years that will forever change the lives of 70 new students who are coming to study God’s Word. The beginning of a new semester in the process of becoming ministers of the Word for the other 100 who have already begun […]

One of our homes…

July 29, 2011

If you’ve ever moved away from a hometown or area; How long has it been since you last returned? What have you done in and with your life since you left that area? Do you even want to return to that city or town? My answers to those questions are complex and honestly really positive. […]