I was shocked today (June 21)! I asked the Lord to help me with today’s NT passage in Ephesians 4, noting how many times I have read it in five decades. It was also in the NKJV, which is not my norm. ...  Read More

(Note: Welcome to my on-going devotional series in Acts 16–28. I encourage you to look back at past devotionals and stay current. Today we come to Acts 25).In Acts 25 we are back at the trial of “Paul...  Read More

I have read through the book of Isaiah numerous times.  On one of the last times reading through the book, the Lord drew my attention to these verses in the 46th chapter.  Maybe my mind was drawn to t...  Read More

This is one of the best-known and most-quoted verses in the Bible on parenting.  On the surface there is a precious promise here: if we train our children in the ways of the Lord, when they get older ...  Read More

This is part of the vision given to John on Patmos about the end of all things. Revelation is a prophetic book and is full of wild imagery and symbolism and it can often be hard to discern and interpr...  Read More

You can tell a lot about a person by the spaces they inhabit. Let me give you a tour of one of my spaces—my office here at Maple. It’s nestled in the back corner of C Building, down a few doors from J...  Read More