“Won't you please take a picture of this?” I looked up to see Charleen holding the white gerbera flower she had picked at the flower farm the previous day. High up on the long stalk of the flower, Randall, our pet chameleon, had...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I sat with my arm around her that night, watching the aeroplanes lift-off from a glistening runway, setting out on their mysterious journeys to who-knows-where. Soft rain pattered down on the windscreen of my pristine '72 Chevy El-Camino, while a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The tears just wouldn't stop welling up in my eyes as I spoke, betraying the emotions drubbing like an old pair of army boots in a washing machine, inside the hole in my heart. Josh, my dear friend, pastor, and fellow-elder, gave me time. And he...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
You, my friend, may not have seen it until now, flickering in the dark, yet in my hand I hold a lantern. On this night, I reach out toward you in your darkness to assure you that I have walked where you walk. I have tasted the hurt of very...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
It is gratitude that drives my fingers to my keyboard once again. The months of March and April have taken my family and I on an intensely emotional journey. Through my two heart-attacks this month, I have been left speechless at the network of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Through nights that have seemed endless and comfortless; Through months of weeping, yearning, aching; I have discovered a valuable jewel that has been with me all along. There is no bettter way to reveal the true nature of personal faith than to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Sandwiched between two chapters in the narrative of Joseph, God chose to insert the account of Judah and Tamar and the perversion that took place between them. Why would God tuck that chapter in there? What is He saying to us? Remarkably, this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How many people do you know who are truly content? Even as you look in the mirror, can you be at peace even through suffering? In contrast to us, Christ was content to let the injustice of his false accusation and murder slam down upon Him. Yet...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Just as we would rejoice when a particularly violent criminal is apprehended and brought to justice, so the unbelieving world cheered when Christ was shoved forward against the justice of God. He, it appeared, deserved it. He was a nobody who...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In a world where pyrotechnics and special effects hardly raise the pulse rate of the numbed modern viewer, imagine a solitary man who will truly astound nations. He will astound even the most powerful rulers into silence. Yet what astounds them is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
