Dear Friends, I am one of those people who learns by doing. It was something I discovered in high school as I was trying to master geometry. No matter how many times I listened to the teacher explain the Pythagorean Theorem, I never really understood it until I tried working the problems myself. Then it made sense to me. However, it wasn't until I was in my mid-30's that I realized that my learning style applied to my spiritual life as well. In other words, I found that I und

Dear Friends, This morning I was reading in the book of Joshua, and I came across the following statement in Joshua 14:11: “I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then.” At first, that statement didn’t really mean much to me. Then I realized that the guy saying it was 95 years old! His name was Caleb, and he's probably one of the lesser-known heroes of the Bible. The reason Caleb could be called a “h

Dear Friends, For the past few days I have been pondering the subject of God's will. I think it's because one of our sons is getting ready to graduate from seminary, and so we’ve had a few conversations about what it means to “follow God's will” for our lives. As we’ve talked, it’s reminded me of my own graduation, and I've been struck by how different my life has turned out from what I anticipated it would be 30 years ago. And it's all because of one simple factor: God’s wil