Love Letters (repost)

This devotional was originally published on June 13, 2017.My wife and I just completed a move to a new house. During the packing-up phase, my wife ran across a box containing a bunch of our first emails that we sent back and forth to one another in the first months of...

From Blind To Believer (repost)

This devotional was originally published on November 10, 2017. And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. And when he heard that it was...

Too Afraid to Return (repost)

This devotional was originally published on June 24, 2016. A few years back, at youth camp, a group of students decided that it would be a funny prank to sneak out of their room in the middle of the night. They were hoping that we would chase them around the entire...

Healing Body and Soul (repost)

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by...

The Reality of the Resurrection

I have a 5-year-old son who is obsessed with all the typical boy stuff. These days, his obsession centers around snakes, spiders and sharks. Almost daily, he’ll ask me if he can look at pictures of one of those three on my phone. So I’ll google...

Take Another Lap

In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell tackled the commonly held stereotype that students from Asian countries are better at math. Gladwell explains that they aren’t inherently better at math, but that cultures that have a tradition in the tedious and laborious...