In middle school, I discovered an ad for a “free book”. Excited, I filled out the information and awaited its arrival. Turned out, it wasn’t that great of a book and I didn’t even finish it. The following month – you guessed it — another book arrived addressed to me. In my ignorance, I opened it, glad …
Shake, Rattle and Roll
In the inky darkness of 2:00 a.m., we awoke to the groaning of our twenty-five floor apartment building. An earthquake rocked us out of our beds on the seventh-floor. Feeling that our apartment was nearing ground level with every tremor, we jumped out of bed, grabbed our children, and escaped into the night. For weeks after this 7.6 …
A special dialog with your Shepherd
Studying through the Twenty-third Psalm has brought so many great promises to mind. Let’s use today to immerse ourselves in conversation with our Great Shepherd. It begins with your prayer and declaration to Him. The italicized portion is His personal response to you. If you like, you might even call someone and read it together – you …
Spiritual Gestation
“It’s a girl!” When my daughter, Hannah, called to say that our fourth grandchild was going to be female, we were all ecstatic. As proud as we are of our three adorable grandsons, there was something exciting about this one being a girl. I suppose Hannah and Steve felt this way themselves as they began preparing the …