Tests conducted by scientists show that humans are incapable of walking in a straight line I recently came across an article entitled...

1 Corinthians 3.9-15 Illustrated May 2020 - The boardwalk was a great idea. We could walk through areas of bushes and trees without...

The death of this cousin made a special impact on me. The biggest effect, I guess, was that I spent the day meditating on one of the...

It had been 9 years since I first knew God had called me to do mission work in Brazil, and I was still in high school. Now, at the...

When the presentation outshines the present, the gift gets lost in its wrapping paper. I actually lost a present this year in the piles...

This episode, based on Psalm 23.3, complements the previous episode which focused on Psalm 23.2.  We find from a study of the Hebrew text...

A day off from work. A holiday. Sleeping in an extra couple of hours. Is that what resting is all about? By nature, we make it depend on...

Hamas is everywhere in the news, but I found it in the Bible this week. Acknowledgment: As I was making the final revisions to this text...

In December 1971, we felt we were finally about to begin experiencing the joy of fulfilling God’s call to the mission field. Then within...

Listen to the podcast here. We usually think of elephants as zoo animals, and until recently as circus performers. Times have changed...

Listen to the podcast here. The apostle Paul is arguably the most well-known missionary in history. After all, he wrote about half of the...

Listen to the podcast here. In 1968, the Beatles came out with the song, “Yellow Submarine”, and the only part of the lyrics I remember...

Listen to the podcast here. When one goes to a theater to see a play, they are given a program that includes the list of characters and a...

Listen to podcast here. The headline of the recent opinion piece by Christine Emba in the Washington Post caught my eye. “Men are lost....

When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich after signing an agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938, he announced that he...

Photo taken on the Sea of Galilee, May 2022, near Magdala on the west side of the sea. In May 2010, our group left from the opposite...

Red oak This is the story of two oaks on our property. They are both old and probably about the same age. One is a red oak and the other...

November 9, 2022 --- the election is over, well, except for the last few stragglers we're waiting to see cross the finish line in this...

In the previous blog post, I referred to the fact that the #1 issue for most voters in this year's election in the US is inflation. For...

By the time you read this, almost certainly the election Tuesday, Nov. 8 will be history. But at the time I write on Sunday night, Nov....