Recently, I was on a social distancing hike in the desert with a young lawyer named Mike Roberts. We wound our way along the rocky trails through the cactus as we talked. Mike was behind me, as we wen...  Read More

Kristina’s heart transplant team called and said they want me to be quarantined at home because of the danger that I could bring the Coronavirus to her. My quarantine may last for quite a while. I was...  Read More

One evening last month two friends prayed a powerful prayer for Kristina and me. That night I had this dream:I was scheduled to speak to a group of people on the topic of “The Last Days.” When I arriv...  Read More

One of the Lord’s great gifts is to transform a difficult relationship into a blessing. Jan Dow was a woman in our church in Novato who gave me more trouble than any other person in our congregation. ...  Read More

My wife Kristina is a lady with peculiar habits. She worked on a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle on our dining room table, which our grandchildren had left her after their visit. Now, most people look closel...  Read More

I was preaching in San Rafael last Sunday. The sermon text the Lord had given me began with John 14:1, “Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.” My message was alrea...  Read More

This Easter, Kristina and I went to California to celebrate my mom’s ninety-fourth birthday. Our family gathers on Easter afternoons at my cousin Kendall’s house in Napa. Since we planted Living Strea...  Read More

Earlier this month, David Stockton invited me to join him and Ryan Romeo, our church’s Creative Arts Pastor, for a conference on the Holy Spirit in Portland. We flew to Portland and checked into an Ai...  Read More

I was breathing deeply as I followed an elk trail up a steep hill in Northern Arizona earlier this month. The trail wove through the pine forest, crossing under fallen trees and around jagged rocks. I...  Read More

At the end of June, I took a trip to Ecuador with Jay Murphy, our worship leader at Living Streams. We had a week of fruitful ministry with leaders and churches in Cuenca and Quito. Our hosts in Quito...  Read More

I attended a conference in the Canary Islands this month with Christian leaders from Argentina, Ecuador, Italy, India, France, Spain, England, Africa, and the United States. It was refreshing to be wi...  Read More

In June of 1972, I drove from Marin County to Dallas, with the Jews for Jesus. Moishe Rosen, their founder, had invited me to accompany six of them to Explo 72, a gathering of over 80,000 mostly young...  Read More