Hebrews 12:1 - 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 out for us. (NIV)A pair of brand-name jogging shoes...
I was determined that this year's vacation would be different. I had planned it all carefully the summer before, and I had even gone to the effort to reserve all of our campgrounds a whole year in advance, just to ensure that we would have the best possible sites in...
An oyster was enjoying a leisurely stroll across the bottom of an Atlantic Ocean shore. The waters around her were rich in an abundance of microscopic plant life, and as she sauntered along, she retrieved and ate a few tasty bites.Up ahead on the surface of the ocean...
We built a pathway but just off to one side was the tip of a rock deep in the ground. We could not shift it.It looked as though we could not cover it with dirt to level out the ground without making it higher than the pathway. It seemed doomed to remain an obstacle to...
We were in the midst of a tropical depression. That’s when lots of gray, soggy clouds sit there and don’t go anywhere. Day after day the rains kept coming. When we have flash floods the rain waters steadily rise creating deep, dangerous puddles in driveways and...
It was my birthday! I was now threescore years old. Did that mean I had ten or perhaps by reason of strength twenty more earthly years? Would I, in time, reach that fourscore years?Only God in His infinite wisdom knew that.Every time I had looked in the mirror the...
Matt 25:40 "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." NIVThe summer I spent doing relief missionary work in Haiti would turn out to be quite full of surprises! In fact, my very first day, from the time my...