Come Up Here!

Come Up Here!

My son and I were walking on a concrete pathway along the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. After hiking along the path for about a mile or so we decided to head back. On our way back I noticed that we were now going “uphill.” When we began our hike, I hadn’t even...
Joy in the Journey

Joy in the Journey

Life isn’t always about destination… sometimes it’s just as much about “the journey.”  When my kids were little we lived a short distance from a creek that ran through the woods. Every once in a while my kids would say to me, “Daddy, let’s go on a ‘venture’”...
The Tempered Strength of God

The Tempered Strength of God

When my kids were preschool age I used to wrestle with them on our living room floor. Every once in a while I would “pin them” to the floor just to remind them that I was “the boss,” but most of the time I would let them beat me so they could know the thrill of...
The First Order of Creation

The First Order of Creation

Have you discovered yet that God does things in sequence… in a progression. Just look to the front of the book He gave us and you’ll see that He does things “in order.” You need look no further than Genesis 1:3 to discover that LIGHT is the very first order of...
Where All of Our Problems Began

Where All of Our Problems Began

Where did all of our problems begin? We could go back to the garden of Eden where Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit. Yes, we could say that DISOBEDIENCE is where all of our problems began. But, let’s go back further than that, to before the fruit...