During these times of anxiety, uncertainty and with tons of information being thrown at us in ways that we have never experienced before, I think it’s important to be able to distinguish the useless i...  Read More

For you it might be a special day with a grandparent who has now passed, a Christmas where the whole family was together, your wedding day, the birth of a child, a first dance, or the last words from ...  Read More

“For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.”  (John 5:46) Unleavened BreadHappy Passover!If you are like me, all your days, weeks and months have turned into a blur, s...  Read More

Lamentations 3:22-24:  “Because of the loving devotion of the Lord we are not consumed, for his mercies never fail. They are new every morning, great is Your Faithfulness! The Lord is my portions, say...  Read More

I grew up during the World War II years.  In 1941 to ‘44 the radio reports contained very little good news.  Hitler still owned Europe and the Japanese continued their march across the Pacific toward ...  Read More

The thought of people around us dying is a terrifying thought. We all know that death is a part of life, but we do not usually spend a great deal of time thinking about it. Yet most of us are tuning i...  Read More

I would encourage each of you to think about or write down some of your feelings  during this bizarre time in our lives.For me, I'm feeling: LONELY: I'm afraid to be around my friends or family in cas...  Read More

Take a moment and think back a few thousand years to the people of Israel as they’re leaving Egypt. They spent over 400 years in Egypt. Generation after generation grew up in slavery. Day-in-day-out, ...  Read More

Ruth –“Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, ‘We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the ho...  Read More

April 2nd Daily DevotionalScripture: Psalm 46One spring night in 2012 , in a hotel room several stories high in the foggy Chicago skyline - I had tagged along with Bryan for a work conference - we wer...  Read More

This past two weeks did not gone like I planned and I fear this week won’t follow my plans either. You see, I was supposed to have been in Tanzania two week’s ago speaking at a conference and working ...  Read More

The importance of hand-washing is all over the news and social media right now—how to wash hands, how long to wash hands, when to wash hands. I’m glad it is. It has always been important, but it can ...  Read More