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Visiting one of our partners
“I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that…
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Heading to the mountains
"After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray." (Mark 6:46 NIV) There’s something about climbing up into the mountains that brings a smile to my face. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the…
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Kurzweil’s singularity and life beyond death
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? (Romans 7:24 NIV) Ray Kurzweil intends to live forever. He is attempting to travel across a boundary in time that he calls the “singularity.” By…
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Book recommendation: Who Stole My Church?
I recently received an advance copy of Gordon MacDonald’s new book, Who Stole My Church? What to Do When the Church You Love Tries to Enter the 21st Century, from Thomas Nelson publishers. I was happy to receive a book…
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Jesus, baptism, and live colored Easter chicks
“When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. It was a spiritual procedure—the cutting away of your sinful nature. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were…
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Suffering and strawberry milkshakes
"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2…
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Cliff diving and the fear of rejection
"Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe" (Proverbs 29:25 NIV). Some years ago, when I was young and foolish (or should I say more foolish) I found myself standing…
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Measuring the love in Granny’s biscuits
“And here is how to measure it—the greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends.” (John 15:13 NLT) When Robin and I first got married I wanted her to learn how to make biscuits like…
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While I was thinking about thinking
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him…
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Thinking aloud
“Come now, let us reason together,”says the Lord. (Isaiah 1:18 NIV). “Daddy, why is the sky blue? What is glass made of? Why do the clouds move? How much longer before we get there?” I remember asking these questions of…