Today I had the morning for sermon prep, and it needed to be concentrated because I’m heading down to California to catch up with my mom....

II Corinthians, but it’s a phrase ripe with meaning.  It’s a phrase which, along with a passage from Jeremiah, God has used over and over...

I come home from days of meetings in the summer, and often want to go do a little local climbing, or walk around the lake by my house....

There was the barrier of the Red Sea, which gave birth to fear.  There was the barrier of hunger and thirst, which gave birth to whining....

how the "mighty" have fallen I came home yesterday in the late afternoon and wondered, as I climbed the steps to my upstairs office, how...

“Alone” isn’t really the right word, because I’m referring to the two of us, husband and wife.  We’ve been on a vacation this week, not...

mountains her medium - God her teacher It’s been quite a week.  Having driven my oldest to the airport last week for her move to Europe...

And then there were the rest of the meals since the last memorable one.  Some of them were taken alone, some on the run, some as a family...

the bell tolls for thee...in a good way I have a friend who runs a camp outside of Toronto.  It’s one of the largest camps in North...

The Shalom of Creation Yesterday my wife and I drove up the Mt. Baker highway to its very end.  She wearing snow shoes, and I backcountry...

After falling last Thursday on the ski slope in Austria, I could barely move. My fall was a mere 150 meters of skiing above the gondola,...