The Place Where Heaven Comes Down

There’s a bridge in a park not too far from here – they take carriage rides there. It’s just a bridge to most folks, but not to our son and daughter-in-law. That will always be a very special spot to them. It’s where he asked her to marry him....

Hell’s Highest Compliment

Missionary pilots are some of my greatest heroes. See, missionary pilots fly around the world and land places where you think a plane could never land. They know how to take their plane apart; they know how to put it back together again. When I was in college, a few...

Names on Your Heart

One of the large churches in our area started a new building and they announced it would be for community outreach. But they did something I’ve never seen a church do before. They gathered the congregation around the just-completed foundation of that new...

Changing World, Unchanging Truth

When I visited the Gulf Coast of Florida, I got to see a couple of glorious earth turns. The sky was ablaze with color and the sun disappeared on the horizon. You say, “Excuse me, Ron, that’s a sunset.” Hey, wait a minute. Are you from the 14th...

Black Friday Battles

I was in one of those “big box” stores over the weekend – and Santa was strolling the aisles wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. I told my wife, “It was fun to see Santa. I was just a little surprised to see him carrying pepper spray on his...