A challenge to break the rules

I discovered something about myself a few years ago. I am a rule-breaker. I don’t like anyone telling me what to do. Of course, I don’t always go against

Welcome a God who loves to be part of the day-to-day

Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali. Matthew 4:13 I visited Capernaum on an October day

How to Overcome Negative Thinking and Think Clearly

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have scrutinized the brains of my three children. My daughter spent two hours in an fMRI machine while they watched how her

How to best use your imagination

Call to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you of great things, things beyond what you can imagine, things you could never have known. Jeremiah

God will do a new thing

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry

Kneeling Before the King

But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Psalm 33:11 We visited the Vatican on a hot July day, along

Where are You Building Value?

The grass withers, the flower fades; nothing lasts except the word of our God. It will stand forever. Isaiah 40:8 (VOICE) Forlorn is the word that came to

Four ways to be wise

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure. James 3:17 (NIV) We sat on roughly hewn marble slabs in the shade of a tree and

When we think no one understands

“For in him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28 I struggled up the worn marble steps of the Acropolis in Athens in searing July heat.

Who’s watching you?

Then he prayed, “Lord, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. Genesis 24:12 Too old for another long journey, Abraham