My soul longs. It always desires more. It hungers. It seeks. It thirsts. Indeed, it craves. My soul is like a yearning machine. This can take the form of selfish idolatry, in which case I am perpetually unsatisfied and ungrateful.…

As the beautiful days of autumn keep coming, our hearts are stirred to worship the gracious God who has allowed us to live in such a gorgeous part of His world. We ought to thank Him for each new day.…

It was a cosmic invasion. Two millennia ago, our Creator invaded space and time. He who had decreed, “Let there be light” … came to be the light. To lead us out of darkness. To give us the light of…

I’m observing quite a bit of conflict, including sharp disagreements among sincere Christians, stemming from events in the Middle East. Here are my thoughts. They don’t fall neatly into any one camp, but I don’t mind. 1. The church has…

I’ve made multiple trips to Armenia over the last couple of decades, where I’ve served Christ alongside the Armenian Relief Mission – mostly in the cities of Yerevan and Vanadzor. (ARM was born after the devastating Spitak earthquake of 1988.) On a…

“Goodbye yellow brick road, where the dogs of society howl.” I’m not a regular viewer of The Voice, but I certainly enjoy it when I tune in. Monday was one of those nights. Mara Justine, an incredibly gifted 21-year-old from Galloway,…

Tuesday morning, David Booth led our men’s Bible study. We centered on Luke 5:1-11, where Jesus calls His first disciples. The fellowship around our table was fantastic, as always, and David began his lesson by recalling numerous childhood fishing trips…

“I was only saying thank you.” She’s only 19, but she’s setting quite an example for all of us. Perhaps your first memory of Coco Gauff is that of an eight-year-old girl smiling and dancing in the stands to Carly Rae…

What’s up with Hurricane Lee? This could be a nightmare! Meteorologists are expecting Lee, still a Category 2 as of this blog posting, to become a Category 5 before making landfall. Like many other aspects of weather prediction, landfall on…

I’m on a train from Whittier to Denali today, so I can’t write much. I think what I’ll do is send you six of my favorite photographs (thus far) from our vacation, as I use the the name of this…