I just bought a new surfboard this week. Well, technically it’s a used board I picked up on Facebook Marketplace, but it’s new to me! Every surfboard is shaped differently, and the way it’s built gives each one a unique feel. To get the most out of it, you’ve got to...

During a covid shutdown in 2020, I received a kitten. She has become one of the most consistent aspects of my life, and makes me remember how much I had taken close proximity to other human beings for granted before 2020. In that season distanced from others, she was...

I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6) Those of us reading the Everyday Gospel have been reading through the prophets for most of the last two months. While I really...

The shepherd lies down in the entrance to his sheep enclosure, and above is the wide, deep sky in endless blue-black. The earthy odor of the sheep comes with the warmth of them on one side and, on the other, cool breezes of the night bring the smell of leaves and...

Jesus said, "I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance." (John 10:9-10) At the front of my...

Four centuries before the birth of Christ, the Greek philosopher Plato said, “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Physicists tell us that light is not tangible like a metal but is an...

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.” (John 6:35) I recently started doing high-intensity workouts, and at first, I’d wake up in the morning feeling groggy and...

He redeems your life from the Pit. (Psalm 103:4) Psalm 103 is my favorite Psalm, and my favorite line may be the graphic description of God’s saving ability in verse 4, “He redeems your life from the Pit.” Yes, we all know what it means to fall into a pit. It is not...

Are you a Christian or simply Christian-ish? Many people will be offended by such a question and respond, “I’ve been going to church since I was a baby. There are four generations of good, church going people in my family. I’m there every time the doors are open. Of...

At that moment, the Lord passed by. A great and mighty wind was tearing at the mountains and was shattering cliffs before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake...