What Can’t Be Shaken
Southern California is earthquake country. Those of us who love the sunny, Mediterranean climate must also accept the shaking and rumbling that occasionally...
28
Aug
27
Aug
Don’t Add to the Cross
In today’s Scripture, God tells his people: “If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use...
26
Aug
Do Not Cast Me From Your Presence
There is nothing worse as a believer than when you deliberately, willfully sin—and then sense the withdrawal of the Holy Spirit’s presence and power...
25
Aug
To Be Thankful for Afflictions
In today’s Scripture, the psalmist offers an honest reflection. “It was good for me to be afflicted,” he wrote, “so that I might learn your decrees...
24
Aug
There is a Plan
Jeremiah may have felt the arrows of disappointment and tragedy in his life, but they weren’t fly-by-chance arrows from who-knows-where...
22
Aug
Everyday Sort of Tests
Sometimes because of faulty decision making or maybe just the press of multiple circumstances, we find ourselves tired, discouraged, and a little burned-out...
19
Aug
The Rock That Never Moves: Our Unshakable Hope in Christ
When Ken and I turn off the freeway and drive toward home down Topanga Canyon Boulevard, the traffic always slows a bit near Stony Point, an outcropping...
12
Aug
He Will Never Change
Maybe you’re the type of person who doesn’t handle change very well. It creates a momentary vertigo, an unsteady feeling of imbalance or a little wave...
26
Jul
Did The Americans With Disabilities Act Really Guarantee Change?
When I was a member of the National Council on Disability in the late 1980s, our group helped draft what became the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)...
17
Jul
Receive the Blessing
Sometimes when people say, “The Lord bless you,” they may only be repeating some nice-sounding words to be polite—or to end a conversation...