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March 31, 2021 · 4 min read

A bell buoy rings only during storms. The beating of the waves and wind bring out the music that is within it,…

March 29, 2021 · 6 min read

Wrestling With Christ

In the days of the Roman Emperor Nero, there lived and served him a band of soldiers known as the “Emperor’s Wrestlers.”…

March 26, 2021 · 4 min read

Invitation To Friendship

In the book, The Insanity of Obedience, its author, Nick Ripken writes: Betrayal within the faith community is a special concern, and…

March 25, 2021 · 4 min read

Turn The Tables On Me

In 1517, an obscure Catholic priest named Martin Luther placed his life in God’s hands when he nailed his 95 theses, his…

March 24, 2021 · 2 min read

Who Do You Say I AM?

In the world of technology there is a new development called Hyper Sonic Sound (HSS). The inventor, Elwood “Woody” Norris, has engineered…

March 23, 2021 · 2 min read

Prepare the Way

Yad Vashem (“a memorial and a name”) is Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the…

March 22, 2021 · 3 min read

Breakthrough!

Nik Ripken, in the book The Insanity of God, records the story of perseverance in the light of dark circumstances: Dmitri was…

March 19, 2021 · 3 min read

Hidden Treasures

There was a very poor man down in West Texas in the 1930s who barely made a living on a very poor…

March 18, 2021 · 3 min read

Faith’s Enclosure

The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet…

March 17, 2021 · 4 min read

Author Scott Sauls recounts: There’s a Groucho Marx skit that I love because I relate to it so much. In the skit,…

March 16, 2021 · 4 min read

Hide and Seek

A pastor phoned the home of some recent visitors to his church, and a voice on the other end of the phone…

March 15, 2021 · 3 min read

John Hancock

Often when we ask for a person’s signature, we will call it their “John Hancock.” This is because of the fifty-six signatures…

March 12, 2021 · 5 min read

Choices

Dear Sir: I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Block #3 of the accident reporting form. I…

March 11, 2021 · 4 min read

Under the Surface

In November of 2016, The Christian Science Monitor wrote an article titled Mt. Saint Helens’ Cold Stone Heart. The article went on…

March 10, 2021 · 4 min read

Has God Fallen Asleep?

In the 1999 movie “Instinct,” Anthony Hopkins plays an anthropologist and primatologist, Ethan Powel, who is being held in a maximum security…

March 9, 2021 · 5 min read

Abandoned By God?

In the movie, ‘Faith Like a Potato,’ a farmer with anger management issues becomes a follower of Christ in South Africa. Surrendering…

March 8, 2021 · 5 min read

Don’t Pass Me By

A man recounts a time when he had to enter the military while the draft was still in place: I didn’t enlist…

March 5, 2021 · 4 min read

Call of the Wilderness

In this short excerpt from a journal entry by the late priest Henri Nouwen, the author describes the need to make a…

March 4, 2021 · 4 min read

Positioned For Presence

Two paddleboats left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side,…

March 3, 2021 · 3 min read

Tents, and Tables of Ascent

We are told that when John Huss was arrested and informed that he would be burned to death for his faith, he…

March 2, 2021 · 3 min read

Vision

Sunday many of you responded to the call to seek God to catch fire through His Spirit. As a testimony to your…

March 1, 2021 · 3 min read

I Seek God!

Chuck Colson in his book, Kingdoms In Conflict, wrote: Have you not heard of the madman who lit a lamp in the…

February 27, 2021 · 3 min read

What Are You Dying For?

Once John Maxwell’s leadership word for the day was Warrior.  He said that a warrior is best defined as the character, William…

February 26, 2021 · 2 min read

Two Altars

Before the days of natural gas grills the majority of us simply stacked charcoal briquettes in the form of a blackened Mayan…

February 25, 2021 · 2 min read

Humility of Hunger

By the year 2030 30% of the inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa will have the highest rate of undernourishment in the world. In…

February 24, 2021 · 2 min read

Going Outside the Camp

When Jesus was filled with the Spirit following His Baptism He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to pray and…

June 18, 2020 · 3 min read

Sounding the Depths

Ephesians. 3:18-19 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that…

June 16, 2020 · 2 min read

Needing Nothing

Revelation 3:17 For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing… When we are…

June 15, 2020 · 2 min read

Stick in the Mud

John 5:19 Now it was on the Sabbath day that Jesus mixed the mud and opened the man’s eyes. You have heard the idiomatic…

June 11, 2020 · 2 min read

Wanderlust

Have you ever been hiking through the woods and couldn’t wait to get to the next clearing? Have you ever seen a…