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...

As I sat with my father in hospice care twenty-four years ago I was able to hear a lot about his life I hadn’t known. It was not an easy life. Poverty and even brief homelessness as a child after World War I and during the Depression of the 1930’s. He entered the army...

Then the Lord’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering. (1 Kings 18:38) I'm constantly amazed that the God of the universe will go out of His way for me. I mean, He needs nothing and lacks nothing. He's the most secure, content, happy, powerful Person there is, and...

“Elijah replied, ‘I have not ruined Israel, but you and your father’s family have, because you have abandoned the Lord’s commands and followed the Baals.’” (1 Kings 18:18) We hear a lot about justice, judges, trials, and the like on the news today. None of it seems...