I grew up in northern California, near the small town of Vina, 18 miles north of Chico.  My father was a farmer, and he moved onto our family farm in December of 1939.  There wasn’t an evangelical chu...  Read More

Recently I began reading through the Book of 2 Corinthians, and I was struck by the way Paul began his letter.  He uses a very interesting word in the opening section – affliction.  In Greek, the word...  Read More

This verse is often quoted and I think many times misunderstood. This verse does provide comfort and confidence to we who follow and love God, but I think it often can be misinterpreted to mean that o...  Read More

“There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel,” says the truism. In other words, no matter how bad things are, they will get better eventually. But that’s not always true, is it? Perhaps that light...  Read More

This is one of my favorite passages. It shows me that the priests demonstrated their faith by walking into the water. And as soon as they did the waters were cut off. Sometimes it takes us walking int...  Read More

A decorative plaque resides on my piano that says, “My grace is sufficient for you.” I have walked by this  and glanced at the words scores of times. Today I stop. My attention is riveted to the words...  Read More