Update Message

We’ve now been back from our travels for two weeks. The trailer is unpacked and ready to sit through the colder months. Christmas decorations are out – except for the lighted wire snowman who has seen his last Christmas – and presents are wrapped. And best of all, there seems to be a sense of […]

I want to share two personal stories related to the message “Leave No Regrets”. The first occurred as I was getting the message ready to send. I had just come back from saying goodnight to our two younger daughters and the bedtime routine had not gone well. Most nights it does. We kiss and pray, […]

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. Every year is a little different, but this year we will be with my wife’s family – her mother, two brothers, a sister, spouses, and lots of kids. By the time we get ready to eat, sometime in the early afternoon, there will be almost twenty of us. […]

The last few messages have considered how God uses or even places us in circumstances for the purpose of molding and maturing us into “the likeness of His Son” (Romans 8:29). After all, this IS the plan of God. He is in the process of redeeming (buying back, or we could say restoring) us to […]

Today is day thirty-two of our traveling “journey.” I put journey in quotes because I’m not exactly sure what to call it. We are definitely not on vacation – we’re needing to address this with regard to how we school our kids – and we don’t really have specific ministry goals related to travel. I […]

I turned fifty years old the beginning of the month. I tried to let the event come and go quietly, but those who call themselves friends couldn’t let that happen. I’m not sure how the tradition began but fifty seems to be one of those milestone moments when we find special ways to tell someone […]