Living in the Moment

Ezekiel 1:1 “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.” Have you ever gone to restaurant with a...

Fresh Mercy

Lamentations 3:22-23 “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” Somewhere in my barn behind my house is a box full of old college love letters from...

Sunny or Mostly Cloudy?

Lamentations 2:1 “How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!” Isn’t it amazing how much better you...

Preparing the Next Generation

II Timothy 3:17 “That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” We live in a unique time in human history. My grandpa farmed with a team of horses in Burdette township, South Dakota. His grandparents lived in a sod house...

Bound or Not Bound?

II Timothy 2:9 “Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.” Much has been made in recent weeks about a Christian pastor in Iran who has been sentenced to be hanged for his faith in Christ. This man, who is...