I’m passionate about my family, gardening, fishing, coaching track and field throwing events, and equipping people to know Jesus, grow up...

The last verse of “What I Live For” by George Linnaeus Banks: “I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true, For heaven...

Why do people worship God’s gifts instead of the Giver? Spiritual blindness and choice both play a part. Let’s unravel the two as we...

Did you know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a jealous God? If not, you probably haven’t read much of the Bible. It is often...

The roads were unfamiliar, but I thought I knew where I was going. I’d visited a pastor at his church once before. About a year later, I...

About eight years ago, a new head track and field coach at my high school asked how long I would continue coaching throwers. He assumed...

I planned every sermon word when I began preaching more than forty years ago. I’ve learned that the right words and proper grammar don’t...

While my granddaughter and I were in a boat crossing a local river, the motor stopped. Yanking the starter rope repeatedly didn’t restart...

Effective church leaders share a common vision and know where they’re going. They value what God values—Seeking and saving the lost (Luke...

Back problems derailed my ability to mow the lawn or do many other tasks in 2016. The Holy Spirit gave me the wisdom, energy, and...

“Swifties” are Taylor Swift’s dedicated and passionate fans. They know everything about her career and music, attend concerts, interact...

Ambassadors represent their countries to other countries, not themselves. Similarly, we who are Christ’s ambassadors represent Him, not...

A universal resistance wells up when people tell us what to do. We’ve felt it. When someone pushes us to do something, we automatically...

Neither car would start on a cold winter morning several years ago. Both batteries went dead on the same day. We couldn’t move either...

Politicians making statements with no evidence to support them irritates me. It happens frequently in the United States. Evidence...

What does God expect me to do? What is my ministry? How can I best serve God and others? We will probably never see in advance all of how...

Power to Live Eternally Something inside us isn’t satisfied with life between the dashes of our tombstones. It yearns for more. For more...

We naturally long for significance, love, and appreciation. We want others to remember us after we are gone. We want our little lives to...

I don’t write a to-do list anymore, but I clearly remember the pleasure of crossing out completed items. Doing so reliably produced a...

I have two observation gears. Most of the time, I am in the 10th percentile of being observant about what’s happening around me. On the other hand, I can be in the 95th percentile, but usually not for long. During the last five years, I have attended the same local church. A few months ago, someone referred to the pictures on the glass walls in the rear of the sanctuary. I didn’t know they were there for five years! Apart from the Holy Spirit’s opening our eyes, we can’t see