AN IMMEDIATE WARNING TO PRAY

Just before taking Communion together this morning, Jan and I were praying in the Spirit. I saw an image. President Trump was standing alone in a hallway. An attacker came from behind him with a raised weapon aimed at the president’s head in an attempt to...

CHALLENGED AUTHORITY

Almost 50 years ago, in my first few months of pastoring, I was sitting around a table with five other young and inexperienced pastors. We were in a small meeting room at Montana State University in Billings, Montana. Seated with us was Jerry Cook, pastor of East Hill...

OUR PLACE OF REST

In my normal morning routine, I am awake before the first light of the morning appears in the sky. In those pre-dawn mornings, I can hear birds begin to sing as they anticipate the coming dawn.  Recently, I’ve been listening to instrumental worship music to...

THERE IS MORE GOING ON

There is more to a verse than just its opening line.  Surrounding passages of Scripture give us a broader view of what the verse is addressing. Take the first part of Psalm 46:10, for example: “Be still and know that I am God.”  The surrounding context...

WHEN FORGIVENESS REWRITES HISTORY

In the small coastal town of Brookings, Oregon, not far from where Jan and I live, is a unique and impactful story of forgiveness from both sides of World War II.  From a website called The Historian’s Den, I read the following: In September 1942, a lone Japanese...