How Will We Spend Our Final Day?

How Will We Spend Our Final Day?

For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. [James 4:14] While driving today, I came upon a nasty car accident. Three cars were all smashed together in the middle of an intersection. Police and fire trucks blocked...
Courage to Embrace Your Executioner

Courage to Embrace Your Executioner

I’ve killed many men in battle. As a Roman soldier, I’ve honed the act of killing to an art of precision. You are present, I have a sword, you die. Direct, simple, efficient. I’ve taken so many lives, the fading light in dying eyes no longer haunts me. I now consider...
Life is Fragile – Live it with Urgency

Life is Fragile – Live it with Urgency

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live” [John 11:25]. When I began writing this, my siblings and I were considering different Hospice options for our mother. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s...
My Great Cloud of Witnesses

My Great Cloud of Witnesses

“Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus.” (Hebrews 12:1-2, NIV) I just heard that...