Risky Business

The time draws near for Declare Conference. Next month,  I am going again, for the umpteenth time.  This year I find that I am getting nudges, hints, and still small voice messages from many different sources regarding the conference. I have questioned my attendance for the past three years since I’ve found myself writing less … Read more

Not What I Expected

The following quote comes from a prayer in a book of puritan prayers and devotions that Chuck Swindoll referenced a few months back. The prayer struck me at the time and I wrote it down, read it and have come back to it from time to time. These last five lines speak for that puritan, … Read more

A Challenge from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The following words came from an email devotional that I received from Michael Card, the musician, a few years ago.    “While I was at Western Kentucky University, Eberhard Bethge, the great biographer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, shared a story with us. Bonhoeffer was discipling a group of young men in a secret underground seminary during … Read more