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

Years ago, one of my brothers came to visit me with his girlfriend. When I started to talk to him about their relationship, he looked at me and said,“You are my brother. You are not my pastor!”That qu...  Read More

Our son in law, Robert Plaisted, is a Glendale police officer. He was in the station briefing room at 5:00 AM with other officers preparing for their morning shift last month when the Assistant Chief ...  Read More

I recently had two memorable dreams that spoke to me. In my first dream, I was in a room with fifty believers sitting in a big square. I was trying to teach them the value of doing ministry with a tea...  Read More

On Sunday afternoon, October 8, the winds howled through Sonoma and Napa Counties.  The pants of PGA golfers flapped like flags as they lined up their shots at the Silverado Golf Course in Napa. Many ...  Read More

I left the door to our backyard open recently for fresh air while I was working on a sermon at our kitchen table. Suddenly a little bird flew past me from our kitchen as it tried to get out through a ...  Read More

In July, I was sitting in Kristina’s hospital room with our three adult children and Philip’s wife, Moriah. We were all still stunned by Kristina’s heart stopping three times and the subsequent miracl...  Read More

My wife, Kristina, has had heart troubles since she had untreated strep throat, Asian flu, pneumonia and scarlet fever as a child. These illnesses left her with myocarditis and pericarditis. Her paren...  Read More

In January David Stockton and I completed a one-year transition period at Living Streams. David is now leading our church and I serve on the pastoral team alongside him. This is the first time since 1...  Read More