When my wife hatched the idea for us to go to Kauai for our 25th Anniversary, she began planning and researching to gain knowledge about the island. She spoke to…
Connecting your world to His Word
Category: Nature
Do you consider the glass half full or half empty? For all the negative news we get pummeled with every day – Earthquakes! Unemployment! Cancer! Politics! – you’d think we…
I was totally sucked in, and the anticipation was building. As I moved across the country, I drove west through Kansas on Interstate 70, and every so often, billboards beckoned…
In 1686, notorious pirate John Bannister and the crew of his ship, the Golden Fleece, engaged the British Navy in battle around an island just off of the Dominican Republic.…
After explaining the beauty and majesty of Yellowstone National Park to my cousin, he just stared at me blankly. We were visiting some family and friends in the Boston area…
From a distance, the shrub looked like any other during the spring, with tender, delicate shoots of young green leaves beginning to emerge from branches. So, I went closer to…
When William Muir wanted to study productivity, he used chickens, because it’s easy to count eggs. He divided the chickens into two groups. The first was the average flock –…
(This is the text of a message I presented to the High-school youth group, Voltage, at Life Covenant Church on December 8, 2021.) Thanks, Sam for allowing me to speak…
Her smile stretched as large as the sockeye salmon she caught – big, broad, and beautiful. As I scooped my daughter’s fish out of the water for her to see,…
The wind stopped. Up until that point, it had been an overcast, cold, blustery, raw spring day. Not exactly ideal weather for an outdoor event. Even the state park employee…