For the last three weeks we have enjoyed two of our sons and their families visiting with us. We have had several picnics, two parties, visited museums, parks, carousels, swam, and enjoyed so much good ice cream. I have laughed, wrestled, played games, watched movies, read stories, and told stories. It’s very quiet tonight. However,…Read more It’s Quiet Tonight
"My son needs help but he is afraid of being stigmatized. His career is taking off and he is being promoted. He is not enjoying his success. He is afraid of being thought of as weak and losing momentum for his career," the distraught parent said to me recently. Today I have had two conversations…Read more Mentally Healthy
It is essential that we have a spiritual health checkup at least annually. When we are spiritually healthy, we thrive in all the facets of our life. You know that glow that you have after a workout or a vacation, there is a glow spiritually as well. “A glad heart makes a happy face; a…Read more A Spiritual Health Checkup
As a guest in so many homes, I have watched so many fathers and mothers play with their children on the floor. The hilarious laughter as children crawled over their Dad and Mom. One of the real benefits of being a guest in a home like that is being asked to pray over their children,…Read more Deeply Secure
On a cold, and unusually clear night in the suburbs, Becky and I gazed in the night sky at distant planets and constellations. The app on our phone helped us identify stars and planets with some information about each. Learning only increased our wonder at the heavenly display of God’s glory. Our children were constantly…Read more Alive to Wonder
"What I'm trying to do here is get you to relax, not be so preoccupied with getting so you can respond to God's giving. People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep yourself in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. You'll find…Read more The Heart of the Father
There is a warm memory in my mind of preaching after our first son's birth at a beautiful church campground in Florida, called Masterpiece Gardens. I remember doing a morning prayer walk with my heart full of praise for our first child and God's intention for his life. I would gaze on my wife singing…Read more Masterpiece
Deeply secure! It is a fact and it is a glorious sense of God's presence that I have known for most of my life. Deeply secure when our Pastor, Gerald Bailius would lay his hands on my head and pray for me with my parents my his side in the hospital. Deeply secure when our…Read more Deeply Secure
"The world is not lacking in wonders but in a sense of wonder." G. K. Chesterton "Blessed God! His love is the wonder of the world." Psalm 32:1, Message Fond memories for me include the sense of wonder our children had with each new discovery. A deer on a trail that walked up to us…Read more A Sense of Wonder
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