We’ve always tried to spend less than we make. Eat by candlelight as often as possible (even when you don’t want to.  Sometimes just stri...

left to right: Martin, Director of Tauernhof, Richard, Charlie, board member of Tauernhof. “Stay a little longer” my friend Martin invite...

The sad reality, though, is that the testimonies offered that day also served as a grave reminder that courage, servanthood, generosity, ...

The show has an adopted child in the family – I’m an adopted child in my family. The sister among the siblings struggles with weight  – m...

The church hasn’t been immune to this polarizing.  We’ve mirrored the culture’s political tribal hatred, enough so that it’s increasingly...

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all” is how Helen Keller put it.  She’s was onto something, surely.  When Dave Mat...

You are God’s uniquely handcrafted beautiful creation.  You have gifts to bring to our darkening and weary world, and that means you were...

Even the desert will bloom… Note: I’m presently offering a short series of the many ways in which our enemy seeks to steal, kill, and des...

church I lead has collided with my reading of “You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit”.  The result has led me to believe th...

fear of falling is more dangerous than falling I hope you’ve seen the ascendancy of young lives as they move from infant to toddler?  If ...

still smiling after 37 years of journeying together Thirty seven years is a long time, and yesterday my wife and I were able to celebrate...

retrieving our car meant enjoying this view again today! My wife and I recently returned from a beautiful adventure, hiking 50 miles of t...

“Speaking of Jesus”, which is one of my favorite books, precisely because the author has a knack for telling people about Jesus as if it’...

NOTE:   This is from a chapter entitled, “Exposure”.  I deal with the deadly life shrinking nature of fear in this post.   Sorry it’s lon...

I decide that awake and watching the completion of the ESPY’s, ESPN’s annual sports awards show is as good as awake and simmering with fr...

All right then.  It will be a day to put on the touring skis, which means attaching friction creating skins to the base of the skis and f...

Is self denial a burden? In the coming days, I offer some thoughts from my devotions in Jeremiah.  It’s been too long since I’ve written,...

It was just over a year ago that my mom-in-law came to visit, and some health matters made it clear it would be best for her to stay with...

It turned dark late this past Friday afternoon, and the mixed snow and rain turned to just snow, pure and white, cold in her beauty, rele...

“Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.  Moses alo...