I was driving to a business meeting the day my dad called to say that my 94 year old grandma had passed. Our 13 year old daughter had succumbed to leukemia 8 months prior and I was tired of grieving. Continue Reading
Angels are Apparently Quite Scary – Luke Chapter 2
What about those angels?! Angels don't show up a lot in the Bible, but every time they are recorded arriving they have to tell the person they are visiting to not be afraid. I made that into a game Continue Reading
Lost 12 Year Old Boy Returned to Parents After 3 Day Absence
The 12 year old boy who went missing 3 days ago in Jerusalem has been reunited with his parents. The parents, who say they attend the Feast of the Passover every year, say this has never happened Continue Reading
Mute Priest Startles Crowd by Talking During Ceremony
The Luke Observer, Jerusalem, in the days of Herod the King of Judea Nearly a year after completely losing his voice, an elderly priest startled attendees when he began to speak during his son's Continue Reading
Is It a Leap of Faith – Luke Chapter 1
Who washed the dishes? The phrase "a leap of faith" is an attempt to explain how some people can see the same evidence and come to different conclusions. Applied to something like "who washed the Continue Reading
What Does God Think About Women
Man-made religion has given God a bad name. Whether by arrogant ignorance or by power-grabbing design, both the words and story of God have too often been perverted to suit the agenda of people. I Continue Reading
Do You Really Want to Go to Heaven?
My daughter read this for the podcast this time, because I don’t have a voice today. Thank you, Carlie! What does the word heaven mean to you? Heaven is a word complicated by many Continue Reading
The Testing of Our Faith (Bicycle Riding with God)
What tests our faith the most? Sometimes I have wondered whether suffering or death test our faith the most. If you live long enough, you will certainly suffer in some way, either physically or Continue Reading
How and Why to Write Your Own Psalms
The word psalm originally meant "to pluck or strike (strings) with the fingers (in song)" Our English word psalm is taken from the Greek psalmos, although the word in the original Old Testament Continue Reading
A Hopeful History of the Church
When I use the word ‘church,’ I use it how it was used in the Bible. In its simplest, it means those people who believe Jesus Christ was the Son of God he claimed to be, and accept His death and Continue Reading