Leaving a Legacy

Apr 9, 2018 | Devotional

A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name. Malachi 3:16 Some years ago our sons and I spent a week on an abandoned backcountry ranch on the Salmon River, Idaho’s “River of No Return.” One day,...

God of Life

Jan 24, 2018 | Devotional

Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. Psalm 104:1 A few winters ago, my hometown experienced an unusually long blast of bone-chilling temperatures that finally gave way to the warmer weather of spring. For two weeks straight, the...

By the Spirit’s Power

Jan 19, 2018 | Devotional

What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Zechariah 4:7 What do you do when there is a mountain in your way? The story of Dashrath Manjhi can inspire us. When his wife died because he was unable to get her to the hospital to...

Growing Gratitude

Jan 17, 2018 | Devotional

For from him and through him and for him are all things. Romans 11:36 Would you like to cultivate a greater sense of gratitude? George Herbert, a seventeenth-century British poet, encourages readers toward that goal in his poem “Gratefulness”: “Thou that hast given so...

Breathtaking Glory

Jan 3, 2018 | Devotional

Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor. 1 Chronicles 29:11 One of the pleasures of a trip to Europe is visiting the grand cathedrals that dot the landscape. They are breathtakingly beautiful as they soar toward the...

Everyday Moments

Dec 28, 2017 | Devotional

A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. Proverbs 15:13 I piled groceries in my car and carefully exited my parking spot. Suddenly a man darted across the pavement just in front of me, not noticing my approach. I slammed on my brakes,...