Thoughts on Luxembourg This Memorial Day

Thoughts on Luxembourg This Memorial Day

It is springtime in 1974 and the team is traveling from our headquarters in Kaiserslautern, West Germany to minister in Belgium. We are part of a year-long pilot missions program, traveling to churches and American military bases around western Europe. This trip takes...
John 12 and Arlington: In Memoriam

John 12 and Arlington: In Memoriam

Twelve days ago, I was in Washington D.C. with students from our church’s homeschool co-op. It was a three-day intensive in our nation’s capital, walking an average of seven/eight miles a day in 90+ degree heat with crushing humidity. No one complained. On...
Prayer for Election Day

Prayer for Election Day

For my thoughts are not Your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Book of Isaiah 55:8-9 Lord Jesus: We acknowledge you as Sovereign,...
Why September 11 is a Mirror

Why September 11 is a Mirror

Keep your memory bright before God.Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest This morning as I awakened to another smoke-filled sky from uncontained wildfires both north and south of where we live, I thought of my alarm clock in the early morning of September 11,...
Not Born in the USA

Not Born in the USA

I don’t think government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, but I don’t think government has a role. Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States Here is a...