As a physician, I am aware of some of the marvels of breathing. Every breath we take draws in several different gasses that make up our atmosphere. Each gas plays a role, but Oxygen is special. It fulfills

Irritants Maybe it's just me but sometimes little things start to bug me. A vacuum running just after I settled in for a nap. A traffic jam. A change in flight schedules. A bounced check. A misplaced phone.

Strong choice of words - but appropriate. The chains were strong. I have been a Christ follower for all of my adult life. I have had seasons in which I was on fire for His ways, and I've had seasons in

I was once a slave. Now I'm Free! For years, I swore I'd stop. But I couldn't. I knew that it was killing me. Killing my marriage. Killing my relationships. Killing my career. I knew that the next drink

This piece of wood started out as simply a blank, flat, unworked, plain-old piece of wood. It does not look like much, but it’s a unique creation of God, with grain and form and color. Still, it is just

I have had chest pains on occasion, I've also had three separate close calls in drowning. Almost died in a car accident once, too. My response to the possibility of the end of my life varies from fear

Don't you wish it were that easy? Computer glitchey? Reboot. Apps acting inapropriately? Reboot. Phone dropping connections? Reboot. It seems to fix everything! Work causing stress? Relationships going

I just finished the first draft of my next book It's on goal setting, and as I printed off the first draft for editing purposes, I thought of another section that might add value. So I started this small

As if the IRS was not enough... Now I have to do a business "survey" for the census bureau. Once a year I spend hundreds of dollars and multiple hours (on top of the scores of hours and money

What do bunnies and eggs have to do with Easter!? There are some who are offended by linking pagan symbols like the Easter bunny and colored eggs with the death and resurrection of Jesus. I tend to lean

In the middle of our worship time 2000 of us singing over the city of Jerusalem Sitting on the steps that lead to the temple mount, we sang praises to the King of Kings - Jesus, the Messiah (or Yeshua

The easy part. And the hard part. I really enjoy writing. Blogs are good. Books are better. Blogs are easy. Books are harder. There definitely is a correlation between difficulty and joy in the outcome.

What if they all have missed the most important moment in history? All the signs showed that this was it. Every prophecy lined up. Every arrow pointed to this date. Every clock had ticked down to - NOW.

Lois looked like she's been beaten with a pipe. But she had simply fallen on her face and that interrupted her plan. Judi and I had decided to not be baptized with the rest of the group. We had already

Scene of taxes, healings, demons, and hanging out with the guys... We visited an ancient ruin of a city on the far north shore of Lake Kineret (what we know as the Sea of Galilee.) Capernaum is about the

Excitement within our group intensified this morning. It was the day we were to visit one of the two sites where it is believed that Jesus could have been crucified and buried. Just outside the immense,

The draw of our group on our guide insisted that ‘normal’ tour guide boundaries be set aside. In one incident, he risked his own career in order to keep our group together. You see, due to the large number

Our bus-full of people from a wide range of cultures began to pull together. All too often, a diverse group of people will succumb to tendencies toward ‘each man to himself’. But our group set aside the

Was it worth it? My strong encouragement for Judi to come with me to Israel resulted in her agreeing to make the trip. The long flight – 2 hours to Toronto, 5 hours layover, another 11 hours flight to

At prayer this morning a song we worshiped with brought a Word. Build a house for your glory is how the line went. And the line brought with it a prayer from my heart. Lord, wake the church - Your people.