Dear Friends, Last week’s message was about Jesus’ healing of the woman with the chronic hemorrhage in Luke 8:42-48. It is a dramatic story about faith and truth-telling. It is also a story within the story of Jesus’ healing of the young daughter of the synagogue leader Jairus told in Luke 8:40-56. This week’s message […]

Dear Friends, Praying with my parents and siblings is one of my earliest memories. Prayer and music were the foundation of my family?s spiritual life. Dad and Mom prayed and read the Bible because they wanted to know what God thought about our everyday, walking-around lives. They believed with confidence that God created us, saved […]

Dear Friends, I am sorry that there was no message for June 19, 2017, because of the press of an engagement that did not permit me time to write. . . . Have you ever set a great goal, assembled an excellent team to accomplish it, set out on the initiative, only to find people […]

Dear Friends, I had a conversation this week with a pregnant friend about the night feeding of infants. It can be a struggle for tired parents, but it can also be a unique pathway to knowing God’s love as I describe in this message. I wrote it nearly thirty years ago after experiencing the intimacy […]

Dear Friends, Every night, before I sleep, I compose prayers and send them to friends going through battles with cancer and other ravaging stress of body and soul. I usually send them with beautiful photographs that inspire my prayers. The next day I post them on Face Book for encouragement of my friends there. I […]