About 15 years ago, John Piper was facing a horrible diagnosis of cancer. But instead of whining or fussing about the hard days to come, he wrote an amazing message entitled, “Don’t Waste Your Cancer.” If you have not read it, please go download it...

As I am writing this musing, I am sitting in the parking lot of the Department of Motor Vehicles waiting for a friend. You ought to hear some of the conversations. You can hear some amazing “advice” and thoughtful insight for living from others....

There are some amazing examples of changed lives laid out by Luke in Acts chapter 9.  Saul became Paul. Peter is becoming the natural leader of the first church in Jerusalem. Aeneas is healed and Tabitha is raised from the dead. Clearly, God...

I had reason this past week to do some studying into Red Letter Bibles. Back in 1899, an editor of The Christian Herald, Louis Klopsch and some others decided to print a New Testament that emphasized the words of Jesus by rendering them in red. A...

As Head of a school, I used to love the first week of the new year.  Not only did everyone have their new shoes, uniforms, bows and lunch boxes, they were literally bouncing with excitement as they wandered the hallways.  But if you stopped by the...

If you have been paying attention to social media (or the media as a whole), you would likely conclude that we can make all the consternations of 2020 go away with a simple turn of a calendar page. Their message seems to be : “2021 is here! We have...

If we are not careful, the incredible story of Christ’s birth can become a bit “cloudy” in our minds. We have heard it repeated so many times that the details get blurred and the wonder of the amazing story can be lost. So, I thought I might write...

It is time for true confessions. I have never enjoyed the movie, A Christmas Carol. I think I just don’t like Ebenezer Scrooge. Truth is, I just don’t like stingy, self-centered people. They make me sad and uncomfortable. On the other hand, being...

Did you know that back in the 1930s when Disney began work on the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the writers compiled a list of some 35 possible names for those sweet curmudgeons?  That long list included Burpy, Dippy, Puffy, Shifty...

You might not think about it much, but pesky bees are important to our ecosystem. In truth, nearly one third of the world’s crops are dependent on bees for pollination. Favorites like apples, cherries, blueberries, avocados and even broccoli would...

There is a great story in Joshua 4:1-24 that I think directly relates to our 2020 Thanksgiving Week. As the children of Israel were crossing over the river Jordan into the Promised Land, the Lord told Joshua to choose 12 men, one from every tribe,...

Recently I had reason to do some reading about the April, 2014 abduction of 276 Nigerian school girls by the Islamic group known as Boko Haram. Apparently, most of the girls were Christians and suffered greatly at the hand of the terrorists....