Fresh heart for the journey
This is the 20th Year of my weekly devotional called “Fresh Heart For a New Week.” They began at a time when it was unusual to receive a devotion or message of any kind on our phones or tablets and so initially, length of message wasn’t an issue. Fast forward to 2024 when our lives […]
“It’s your breath in our lungs and we pour out our praise to You Lord” “Great Are You Lord” Jason Ingram*/David Leonard/Leslie Jordan 11/8/2016 Picture God standing before pre-earth’s infinite empty darkness. His Spirit is brooding (hovering), not over its chaos and total lack of order, but contemplating what is to come. And God’s […]
When I eulogized my good friend Bill Lichty several weeks ago, I didn’t tell a very important part of his personal story. Let me give it to you now. Bill was the son of missionaries to East Africa. He was residing safely in his mother’s womb when World War II necessitated his family leaving the […]
Many years ago, my father-in-law was on a road trip from New Mexico back to his home in Illinois. It was the dawning of our country’s interstate system which would one day criss-cross our nation from top to bottom and from sea to shining sea. But he wasn’t on an interstate highway. He was […]
Why can’t I trust God like I trust Hallmark movies? It’s only been a few years that I have been watching Hallmark movies with my wife. (And if this brings my manhood into question, you’ve just not met men in touch with their emotions!) But I have learned to trust how a Hallmark movie will […]
It was a terrifying situation. Traffic was heavy enough that the car in front of me was mere feet away, and the car following me was less than a car length from my back bumper. Machinery hemmed me in on both sides of the narrow lane. And worse, I could scarcely see through the […]
I am a pastor, teacher, and encourager. I am a happy husband and leader of a family tribe now numbering 13. I am President of Fresh Heart Ministries and consider called of God to help you grow in your spiritual walk … let you know how special you are to God … and have some fun while doing so.