Good News about the Bad News You Hear

It seems the news isn’t news unless it’s bad news. You know, apart from a context of truth, the daily

Read More
Good News about the Bad News You Hear

Geographic Ironies of Jesus and Herod the Great

The Bible loves poetic irony. Think of Joseph’s brothers, hat in hand before the brother they betrayed. Or Haman—hanged on

Read More
Geographic Ironies of Jesus and Herod the Great

How the Downer Book of Lamentations Offers Us Hope Today

The book of Lamentations isn’t one we often read. Let’s be honest. It seems like a real downer. Jeremiah’s “lamentations”

Read More
How the Downer Book of Lamentations Offers Us Hope Today

How the 4 Quarters of Jerusalem Will Be United

Whenever I visit the ancient Cardo street in Jerusalem, I like to look at the replica of the Medeba Map

Read More
How the 4 Quarters of Jerusalem Will Be United

A Lesson on Holiness from the Western Wall Tunnel

Most of Jerusalem’s Western Wall lies underground today, accessible only through the Western Wall Tunnel in which we walked. A

Read More
A Lesson on Holiness from the Western Wall Tunnel

How to Live for God When Your Parents Didn’t

Do you know someone who wasn’t raised in a godly home? Or someone raised in home where godliness cloaked hypocrisy?

Read More
How to Live for God When Your Parents Didn’t

When You Become God’s Surprise Witness

Sometimes God surprises us with opportunities we never sought, never expected, and never even imagined. Often these moments come in

Read More
When You Become God’s Surprise Witness

10 Reasons To Tour Israel Sooner Rather than Later

I have never recovered from my travels to the Holy Land. As many times as I’ve been to Israel, every

Read More
10 Reasons To Tour Israel Sooner Rather than Later

The Source of Our Peace—Reflections from Yom Yerushalayim

The holiday, Yom Yerushalayim, “Jerusalem Day” always reminds me of the T-shirt my grandmother bought me when she went to

Read More
The Source of Our Peace—Reflections from Yom Yerushalayim

Ascension Day Gives Us a Reason to Look Up

Honestly, if Ascension Day didn’t appear on our calendars 40 days after Easter, we’d likely never think about it. Sure,

Read More
Ascension Day Gives Us a Reason to Look Up

3 Lessons I Learned the Day I Dipped Snuff

Riding in the in cab of my father’s truck one day, I noticed a round can on his dashboard. Having

Read More
3 Lessons I Learned the Day I Dipped Snuff

What to Do When God’s Will is the Other Way

Following God’s will is a wonderful thing. That is, when God leads us the same direction we’re already going. The

Read More
What to Do When God’s Will is the Other Way