Throughout high school and college, I took several communications, speech, and writing classes. I figured they were things I already enjoyed doing, so taking a class on them would not only meet a requ...  Read More

Having substantial reason to be afraid of what surrounds us is not new. Perhaps it’s been a while since you read the story of King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20-21. He wakes up one morning surrounded...  Read More

I have a multitude of pictures in albums, and on the walls of my home. I treasure these collections.  They represent memories; snap shots of important events, people, vacations. A few years ago, we ha...  Read More

Sitting in my living room, I hear the sound of a helicopter flying over my house. It’s heading to the Sierra National Forest to drop water on the Creek Fire where 220,000 acres have been burned and 63...  Read More

As the children of Israel set up house in their new land they continued to be influenced by the people around them and gave into their own sin natures. Each time God would bring hardship on them, luri...  Read More

Dark, smoke-filed skies, isolation weighing on nearly every heart…and yet the Lord still speaks. But what is He saying to you now? Do you know? Is your heart so clouded with ache you can’t tell what H...  Read More