What do you do when life doesn't turn out the way you had planned? What happens when death chokes the dreams of seeing your child grow up and have his first day of school or play in his first baseball game? How do you deal with the crippling reality of losing the person you have [...]
In the spring of 1991, I was 13 years old. The week before spring break, my Dad learned he had to take a business trip to Louisiana, which meant he would be gone the entire week I was out of school. This news threatened to put a damper on the fun of a great [...]
In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis imagines a bus ride from hell to heaven. Lewis uses this trip to explore how our understanding of the connection between the eternal and the temporal is often incomplete. “Son,” he said, “ye cannot in your present state understand eternity. . . That is what mortals misunderstand. They say [...]
In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis imagines a bus ride from hell to heaven. Lewis uses this trip to explore how our understanding of the connection between the eternal and the temporal is often incomplete. “Son,” he said, “ye cannot in your present state understand eternity. . . That is what mortals misunderstand. They say [...]
I’m big on goals. I like to make them and accomplish them. I have learned that when I can define a goal, it’s easy to create a game plan to achieve it. If I want to lose weight, I define what’s involved in reaching the goal. If I want to start a business, I develop [...]
When I was a teen, my youth pastor asked a very important question on a regular basis: “If you were to die today, do you know if you would have eternal life?” This single question and the students’ responses, served as a great springboard for conversations about Jesus. It was years later that I discovered [...]
When someone dies, their unfinished projects usually die with them. But after Dave Feige from Wentworth, South Dakota passed away from a tragic farm accident, his friends gave him a helping hand to complete what he couldn’t complete himself. Feige, 58, had over 1,000 acres that needed harvested, so his best friend, Roger Schrepel, gathered over [...]
Luka is a 12-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy, a degenerative muscle disease that keeps him confined to a wheel chair. Despite his disability, Luka’s dream is to just be like other kids who are able to play, run, dance, and engage in sports. Fortunately for Luka, his friend, photographer Matej Peljhan, helped Luka devise a [...]
As you all know, today marks 22 years. There probably isn't one of us who does not remember where we were twenty two years ago. I can still remember the awful taste of raw shock I felt after seeing those first images of the towers burning. The news only got worse as the day dragged [...]
