What do you do when you are not feeling the joy of Thanksgiving? What do you do when you are not feeling thankful? Perhaps you have experienced deep loss. Maybe your plans for the long weekend did not work out. Thanklessness can even happen when you’re stuck in a slump...
Hope affords us the opportunity to be human. We can be real about hardship, difficulties, grief, and suffering when we have hope. Biblical hope anchors our hearts and minds in the goodness of God. Such hope is defined as a confident expectation about the future, a certain conviction that God...
Fall has arrived, which brings about glimpses of cooler evenings and special gatherings with family and friends. For many, autumn is also a season of appreciating the bounty which the Lord has provided. Fall is a time of gathering the harvest of various crops. While I have not personally delved...
A while ago, I heard the most amazing story about an airlift in 1991 of Ethiopian Jews. For many years, Ethiopia had been embroiled in a civil war which threatened the safety of a large community of Ethiopian Jews in the country’s highlands. Some of the Jews were able to...
As most of y’all know, I recently returned from serving 28 days as a Chaplain with the Air Force Reserves. I was sent to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it is a special place. Nellis is “The Home of the Fighter Pilot.” It functions as the...
