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The Great Filmmaker Have you ever watched a film made by God, the Great Filmmaker? Have you ever seen one of His sunrise movies, in which He creates the most spectacular scenes of changing colors in the sky? Or what about one of His great river movies? Did you ever see that one? Did you the...

Because I Was Told I Can About 6 months ago, I joined a gym. Every morning, there is one personal trainer there that works out at the same time that my little group does our workout. He does his "routine" with such a quiet determination that he makes it all look very easy; although I know all...

"When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- He enters into our trouble and saves us." -Eugene H. Peterson "At-one-ment is the blending of God's vast resources with our great need." -David E. Johnson

Father's Love Letter

Here come the bees

"I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny." ~Hans Kung

Against All Odds An Israeli platoon found themselves in the midst of a minefield along the Syrian border during the Yom Kippur War. When the platoon realized they were in a minefield they pulled out their bayonets and started to dig out mines and to disarm them. Suddenly, a fierce wind began...

Don’t Hope: Decide! While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about — the kind that sneaks up on you unexpectedly. This one occurred a mere two feet away from me. Straining to locate my...

"Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad." -Proverbs 12:25

Tell Them Some 14 years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our opening session in the theology of faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy. He was combing his hair, which hung six inches below his shoulders. My quick judgment wrote him off as strange –...

Martha Mason Martha Mason graduated valedictorian of her high school and earned two college degrees at the top of the class—all while living her life in an iron lung. Paralyzed by polio at age 11 in 1948 and confined 23 hours a day in an immobile, 800-pound horizontal tube, the voracious...