My mom once told me the hardest part of getting older was losing friends who died ahead of her. This comment struck home when I learned last week that my good friend Elliot Miller had passed from cancer. Elliot and I were on the same track from the very beginning. He gave his life to…

“In You, my God, my heart shall triumph, no matter my circumstances! By Your power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall rejoice even though all things should fail me here below.” Charles Spurgeon In prayer appointments, counseling, in one-on-one interactions, during a ministry time, but even more, in my own personal life, I am constantly…

Lots going on lately as the Little Church calendar has been very full. But it’s been so fun. Mission trips. Retreats. Good Friday. Easter. Etc. Pictures and videos are worth more than lots words so here goes… Resurrection Day/Easter Services A great group of early-risers, so happy to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus at our…

I’ve never seen anything like it. The amazing ability to organize, oversee and implement a missions trip of consistently more than 50 kids. How does he do it? To me it’s mind-boggling. If I take a team of 8 people overseas, it is a monumental job of planning, coordinating, creating teamwork, itineraries, flights, hotels, etc.…

“Now there was a woman in the city who lived an immoral life, and when she learned that Jesus was in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume, and came to Jesus, weeping and wetting His feet with her tears, wiping them with her hair and kissing His feet, anointing them with…

There were many women in the life of Jesus. They ranged in age from the little daughter of Jairus to the elderly prophetess Anna. There were the virtuous like Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his beloved aunt Elizabeth. The promiscuous loved Jesus like the woman caught in adultery, the street-wise Mary Magdalene, the multi-married…

Two weeks ago I put the finishing touches on my prayer letter with a passage from Colossians. Here’s what I wrote: “As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in Him, being rotted and built up in Christ and established in the faith.” Colossians 2:6,7 Yikes! A few of you caught the big…

“In Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God, for I do not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem to…

Devotional classics describe the kind of writing that has stood the test of time. For me, some of my favorite authors are known as the “Christian Mystics” men and women from mostly the 16th and 17th centuries who have penned some of the most beautiful words ever written… “In order to arrive at having pleasure…

We all have one life to live. A life of time. Our life is measured in terms of time. We are born in time. We grow in time. We learn in time. Time is precious. And it’s fleeting. It never stops. It doesn’t wait for anything. Once time is lost, it’s gone. Never to be…