July 16, 2025 While hiking through Shenandoah with my boys and some friends, we often come across rocky chasms and streams that force us...

July 9, 2025 When my boys and I go backpacking in the Shenandoah Mountains, we often come across streams or rocky chasms that block our...

July 2, 2025 Every summer when my family and I head to the Shenandoah Mountains, we know we're getting close when we reach the little...

June 25, 2025 My family and I have long loved escaping to the Shenandoah Mountains. Every summer, for years now, we’ve loaded up our...

June 18, 2025 When my family and I traveled out West this past summer, we were often reminded of a simple but powerful truth: sometimes,...

June 11, 2025 Before heading out West a few summers back, I carefully mapped out every detail of our trip—daily mileage, routes and...

June 3, 2025 A few summers ago, my family and I journeyed out West. While in South Dakota, Deb and I rented a Jeep and set off along the...

May 28, 2025 This is what the Lord says:   Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and...

May 21, 2025 As I try to lead my family, the church, and the many other areas of my life, I often find myself overwhelmed with the...

May 14, 2025 Six-hundred years before Christ, there lived a prophet, Habakkuk (huh bak’ uhk). The prophet cries out to God:   How long,...

May 7, 2025 In the summer of 2022, my wife and I embarked on a journey from Maryland westward to Yellowstone National Park. We packed up...

April 30, 2025 In Experiencing God , Henry Blackaby discusses how God communicates with each of us through the Holy Spirit, using the...

April 23, 2025 Max Lucado, in his book, He Chose the Nails , writes:   Have you ever wondered why God gives so much?  We could exist on...

April 17, 2025 It's important to recognize that life isn't the way it was meant to be. Ever since sin entered the world in the Garden of Eden, everything has been affected. This world is broken. C.S. Lewis once wrote, “ If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world .” The apostle Paul echoed this truth in his letter to the church in Corinth: For we know that if the earthly tent we live in

April 9, 2025 Jim Cymbala, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, in his book, Fresh Power , writes,   Humanity faces two great spiritual...

April 2, 2025 On May 18, 1980, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake beneath Mount St. Helens triggered the collapse of the mountain’s north flank,...

March 26, 2025 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers...

March 19, 2025 Only One Person Must Compare Ourselves To March 19, 2025   Studies consistently reveal that one of the greatest dangers of...

March 12, 2025 Years ago, a wealthy man and his devoted young son shared a passion for collecting art. Together, they traveled the world,...

March 5, 2025 This week, along with a few thoughts on an intelligent designer behind creation, I wanted to share with you an essay I...