This morning I woke early without an alarm and set out to clean my coffee-maker. I “googled” up the instructions, got my white vinegar and water mix going through the machine, and set out to search for information on how to clean my French Press. Suddenly Google stopped working. At first I thought it was me, but later discovered that it was Google’s glitch. The site was down for about an hour costing Google an estimated 2-3 million dollars in lost advertising revenue. My coffee appliances are all clean and …

May God raise up more clear, courageous, prophetic voices like this all over our land.

Al Mohler has a suggested prayer for our new president.

In the early sixties my Dad and Mom were with a missionary organization called the Galilean Baptist Mission. It was a “home mission” organization. In other words, it was an organization that worked in North America, specifically in Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, I believe. The organization started churches and helped small, rural churches thrive. Dad was a seminary student – eager to preach and the serve the Lord. He and mom have maintained this passion unabated for nearly fifty years of ministry.
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Something happened yesterday deep in my heart. People were all around me when it happened, but no one could have known it. Lately I have invested a lot of time in our youngest son, Wesley. He is thirteen and has had the opportunity to play football for the first time. He starts as quarterback for the varsity team in our Downriver Community football league. When we committed to playing football, we set limits. He would not play on Wednesday nights or on Sundays. Those days are reserved for the Lord …

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To portage and to paddle thorough the Canadian wilderness is incredibly beautiful and rigorous. If you haven’t tried it you really should, just because there are some beautiful places that you have to paddle for many miles to reach. Having paddled and carried your canoe and food and tent and gear to those places somehow makes them even more beautiful and more enjoyable. O how sweet is the sleep I have enjoyed on a bed of pine needles, on a rocky point, in a pristine Canadian lake, under a waxing …

They say that tucked away in a little mountain pass in Colorado is a very beautiful but humble chapel. It’s a lovely little church in a breath-taking setting – a gathering place – a place of worship for the people that live there. But it has no lights. It has only pegs along the wall. The worshipers must bring their own lanterns and hang them on the pegs. If they don’t bring their own light or if there are only a few of them it will be dark and gloomy …