Nature Relaxes While We Scurry
There's something about getting older. We begin to slow down in many ways. Yes, we literally begin to slow down. But we also begin to...
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Get Outside When Crowded Inside
How do you get outside yourself when you're crowded inside, and you need to get outside yourself for a breath of physical, mental,...
There's No Bit Part in God's Play
I can remember a time years ago when I directed (sort of) a Christmas play at a small Nazarene Church. I made the mistake of handing over...
Looking Forward to Life's Storms
Do you look forward to life’s storms, the times when the dark clouds of personal problems move in, tragedy strikes like lightening, or a...
The Christian Book of the Way
The 6th Century Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu (a name meaning “the old master), wrote the Tao Te Ching, a series of meditations on the...
God: Show Me Your Scars
Have you ever thought about what God will say to you when he greets you at the edge of eternity? Have you ever wondered what God might...
Getting a Sense of How You Sense
What kind of sensing do you do? This is a strange but important question. This is a very important question since you experience the...
We See Problems. God Has Answers.
When you have challenges in your life that seem impossible to overcome, do you approach God with the problems or do you call upon him for...
Never Too Late to Say "I Love You"
At Last, No Hearing Aid Needed. The son of the hospice patient I was visiting sat in the corner at the bedside of his dying mother. Even...
God Awaits on the Mountain Top and In the Valley
Throughout our lives, we find ourselves on mountain tops and in valleys. That's also where God awaits us. Life is going great and it...
Judging People by Their Cover
Do you ever judge a book by its cover? Have you ever judged another person by his or her cover? By their hair? By their clothes? By the...
Following a "Master May I" Cloud
Throughout Scripture, clouds symbolize a number of different activities of God, from God confronting Moses on Mt. Sinai to the light of...
What Do You Treasure?
How many times have you hid something of value somewhere so you would know exactly where to find it, and then you forgot where you hid it...
Pops, There Is No Water
When I'm playing golf with my son, and we come to a hole that has a pond or a lake near the fairway or in front of the tee box, he always...
God Opened My Mind's Eye
At 3 a.m. for Me to Be Part of My Dream. I woke up at 3:30. I tried going back to sleep but had this strong feeling that I should go in...
Conscience: Not Just an Internal Alarm
Warning signs are all around us. Most of the time we notice and obey them without thinking, unless of course, they prevent us from doing...
Rx: Dark Chocolate and the Bible
I knew the birthday party was for a very old friend of Margaret's, but I didn't know the words "old friend" wouldn't adequately describe...
The Temptation Snowball Effect
Have you ever experienced the "temptation snowball effect"? Come on! Sure you have. Remember how it's all downhill. It's when you don't...
Leave Your Ego at God's Throne
I volunteer as a fire chaplain at a local volunteer fire company. On one of the training walls in the bay where they park the fire...
Lent: A Time for Giving Up or Giving
Lent is a time we set aside each year to remember how God showed his love for us by sending his his Son, Jesus Christ, to the Cross for...
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