Although the word “holy”  appears more than 600 times in the Bible, there are only two times that it appears three times in succession.  The first is in Isaiah 6:1-4 In the year that [...]

The One who John sees seated on the throne in Heaven is so magnificent that he is left astonished, shocked at the glory of the spectacle: And the one who sat there had the [...]

One Easter Sunday a friend invited me to her Russian Orthodox Church service (Russian language only, no seats). That space was dense with exquisite chanting, intoxicating incense, ornate priestly vestments and precious ancient icons [...]

After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I [...]

During the pandemic, I had the time to be out in my favorite place, my garden, and to listen to podcasts that helped me think and grow.  My favorite was Tim Keller’s Gospel in [...]

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked [...]

  All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and [...]

Below is a 1916 photo — likely taken by my grandfather — of my grandmother, my two uncles and my mother in front of their sod house in central Nebraska. This type of house [...]

From 1970 through 1975 I was involved in a Christian ministry to the “unhoused and unhinged” (the latter occasionally included me). One portion of that ministry was a Saturday evening coffeehouse featuring free sandwiches, [...]

The LORD watches over you—the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. Psalm 121:5-6 When my family moved from Illinois [...]