Dear Friends: The chill betrayed the bright sunshine when hurricane-strength Santa Ana winds blew on the last day of November. High on the roof of the School of Dentistry building, a hungry red-tailed hawk perched, hunched down against the gusts and waited for lunch. I have often heard that hawk’s distinctive “kree-eee-ar” cry and have
Devotional
A Word of Grace – November 28, 2011
Dear Friends: Reading through Ecclesiastes is like rummaging through the attic of an old home. You never know what treasures might be there. There is a lot of stuff worth pondering in chapter 7 alone like this observation of Solomon — In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish
A Word of Grace – November 21, 2011
Dear Friends: But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture”I believed, and so I spoke”we also believe, and so we speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence.
A Word of Grace – November 11, 2011
Dear Friends: The Lord said: Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice . . . And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the
A Word of Grace – October 25, 2011
Dear Friends: The waning crescent moon hangs low over the peaks when Kerry and I reach the trailhead. The headlamps of early hikers spiral up the mountain above us. The earth rotating into the dawn pulls a gentle breeze across the desert from the west. The wind is a good thing because it is already