a few of the thousands save by courage, hospitality, and generosity. Every time I travel in Europe I try to read some European history,...

Here’s a free chapter for all those folks you know in your lives who have walked the road of success for a bit of distance and are both...

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all” is how Helen Keller put it.  She’s was onto something, surely.  When Dave...

NOTE:   This is from a chapter entitled, “Exposure”.  I deal with the deadly life shrinking nature of fear in this post.   Sorry it’s...

Schladming for a little bit of rest before I head up to England for a week of speaking at Capernwray Hall.   The week is a break in the...

We know the Bible, the words on scroll, know it like the back of our hands.  But the Bible doesn’t bring peace.  Neither does...

I’m happy to offer a repost today of something offered earlier this summer during my sabbatical because it seems so very appropriate...

In two weeks I’ll be home, preparing to meet people in the church I lead who I haven’t seen in nearly three months.  Their priceless gift...

“we started when we were kids and just never stopped” when are you too old to ride your bike to church? They’re brothers, these two guys...

It’s our last hike, the end of our forty days trekking through the Alps together.  I’ll begin teaching next week and thinking about...

(I’m happy to introduce the guest author for this post as my hiking partner, best friend, and one week from today, wife of 35 years!...

Our view of guidance is important, because unless we believe God can still direct our lives, orchestrating encounters, moving us to...

My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were nearly the last people to...

Fiercely Interdependent – My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were...

Most years, the first or second week of December, I’m in the little town of Schladming, in the Austrian Alps, to teach at a Bible school...

All this has been unfolding at the same time I’ve been preparing to embark on a sabbatical journey, which will begin with 40 days of...

It was supposed to be the Cascades… I spoke with a couple last week who lost their child to cancer at the age of six.  As we talked of...

The training of the body of is vital for people like us, who have spent most of our waking hours during adulthood sitting in chairs.  ...

every minute matters.. especially the last one!! I have fought the good fight.  I have finished the course.  I have kept the faith – Paul...

The Achilles story is appropriate  because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes.   Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...