Dear Friends, I am blessed with a number of friends with young families. It is a joy to watch the milestones of first words and first steps of their babies. Learning to walk is one of the fundamental developments of infancy. Being able to stand on one’s own and take steps towards a goal means […]

Dear Friends, I was unable to send out a message last week because of internet problems now resolved. On May 12, 1727, some Moravian believers in Herrenhut, Saxony, began a daily “watch” vigil for Christian revival. The Moravians kept it up for the next 100 years. The world’s first large scale missions effort was the […]

Dear Friends, Each if us, at one time or another in the midst of grief, pain, exhaustion, or boredom, wonders if God cares about me personally? A son of a former colleague suffered a neuropsychiatric disorder that required special attention at times in his fourth-grade church school classroom and made him “different” in the perceptions […]

Dear Friends, I was asked to give the inaugural devotional for the first board meeting of a Christian organization committed to religious freedom some years ago. I reworked a devotional that I had used earlier in the year for a meeting of general counsel for Christian hospital systems. Someone asked me for a copy recently. […]

Dear Friends, I continue to learn a thing or two about prayer, namely that I need a constant connection to Christ. There is a need to think about him in every situation – where is he and what does he want? Things go badly when I forget that connection and to honor it with reverence […]