Hope in Dark Places

I love our Christmas tree. Come to our house, and you will see it shining through the window before you ever set foot inside. The myriad of white lights, the crimson ribbon, the red and silver ornaments, and a picturesque angel on top make it a visual delight. My wife...

Chocolate-Chip Pound Cake

I love my wife’s chocolate-chip pound cake. Love it. Love it. There are so many great things about this cake: The ingredients. When I see a bag of mini chocolate chips, sour cream, eggs, and a few other assorted items on the kitchen counter, I know good things are...

Please Don’t Send Me to Africa (repost)

This devotional was originally published on August 15, 2016.Please Don’t Send Me to Africa was the title of a song we sang in church youth choir. The tongue-in-cheek parody was an honest expression of many believers’ attitudes toward missions: I’ll...

Flying (repost)

This devotional was originally published on February 17, 2017.My wife loves her boot camp buddies. Even though their workouts are at 5:30 in the morning, even though it is dark and cold at that hour, and even though their time together involves a significant amount of...

Heaven is a Real Place (repost)

This devotional was originally published on August 3, 2017.Writing a devotional about eternity is a bit like writing an essay about the cosmos. Even those who seriously study it have only a vague idea of what it actually entails. While we may understand the general...

The Hunger That Satisfies (repost)

This devotional was originally published on June 7, 2018. We were playing paintball out in the woods at youth camp, decked out in our full camo gear (you know, ‘cause we were serious like that), and trying to endure a brutal late-July Texas day that was even more...