Now 27 more days till my next missions trip to Eastern Europe. Today's coffee mug was from our trip to Sri Lanka a few years back. Today’s Daily Worship Devotional video is from the words of Jesus in Luke 8:16: " “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts [...]

Ok, only 28 more days till my missions trip to Eastern Europe. If you watch the video you can also see my coffee mug from Romania. Today's Daily Worship Devotional video is from Deuteronomy 8:2-7. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble [...]

For today’s Daily Worship Devotional Instagram I posted a little video also on Facebook, you should be able to see it in this post. […]

Jesus had great clarity about what he was called to do and who he was called to serve. Purpose and mission begin with clarity.

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27 […]

This is a devotional for the days after Christmas Day … or thereabouts. In America and much of modern western culture, the Christmas season has degenerated into a predominately secular affair with start and stop dates defined by a marketing calendar. According to this cultural norm, after the big day, the Christmas season is officially [...]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!   – Chicken Little As I’m writing this, December 2018 in America, it seems the world may be falling. The federal government is shut down, there is a revolving door of turnover in the Executive office,  the stock market has been plummeting for weeks, France is enflamed in [...]

As I’m writing this, Advent and Christmas of this year are shaping up to be the darkest I have ever personally experienced. It’s been a season of great loss and impending grief. I lost a good job, beloved family members have died, others are declining or terminally ill. We are not traveling and “going home” [...]

Hello friends, and may the Lord be with you! Advent reminds us there was a long season of preparation, waiting and anticipation before the Incarnation, the arrival of our savior Jesus as Emmanuel, “God with us”.  When we make Jesus Lord of our lives, believers in Christ also receive a type of “incarnation” as Christ [...]

Every Advent season offers the opportunity to reflect on the wonderful mystery of the coming Incarnation, the arrival of Emmanuel, “God with us”. His presence, his action in our everyday lives, is what releases genuine HOPE.  To the skeptic or the cynic, however, the origins of the Jesus narrative may seem to be more like a child’s [...]