Is God Really There?
Do you ever wonder if God is really there? Is He really listening? Am I just doing all of these things and nothing ever changes? I’ve been getting messages lately, that maybe I might try spending some quiet time so I can hear if He...
Shooter on Campus
A Dangerous Threat Driving in to the office, late as usual, I glanced down at my emails after stopping at a red light. I spied a note from the principal of our son's school regarding a lockdown. What in the world? Maybe they are doing a...
Homeless Teens
The young man on the seat next to me had no where to go. Heading back from an inspirational trip to Baja California, deeply satisfied with the knowledge that we had just helped a ministry to build a new home for a precious local Mexican family,...
Sell Everything and Follow Me
That's not for real is it? Do we really have to sell all of our belongings to follow Jesus? That was the question I had to answer years ago when I first read that scripture. Telling the story again to a bible class a few...
Can Fruits and Veggies Be Bad For You?
My first ten years of life were on a peaceful dairy farm in southern Iowa. Usually around Memorial Day, we would begin the long process of planting the garden. Dad would have already plowed up the ground with the tractor and mom, my sisters and...
Healing Through Dreams
We were all in our old house in Santa Barbara. It was the home we had always dreamed of and lived in for many years. There were huge wooden gates at the entrance, draped with grape vines, the name "Puerta del Cielo" (portal to heaven),...