I dropped Kristina off at Banner University Hospital on April 27th. When I kissed her good-bye, I did not know if we would ever see each other again. I drove back to the hospital on May 20th. As I pulled up to the curb, Kristina stood up from a wheelchair and stepped into our car. Three years after …

We are experiencing a reduction in traffic here in the valley and I have never seen the skies so clear. From my hospital bed I see details of ridges, troughs, saddles and knolls on South Mountain which astound me. I have a clear view of the few planes that head in for landing at Sky Harbor Airport.

man. One of our members introduced us and said he was a wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. I played football in high school and I have been a fan since I was a kid going to 49er games. The Cardinals were in pre-season at the time, with many coaching decisions being made. I…

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 went over a ridge into an area where I seldom hike. We both paused as I came to a fork …

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 contemplating this reality when my friend, Tom Shultz, sent me a message: “God has called a timeout.”
Tom is right. Sports, entertainment, churches, restaurants, businesses …

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 arrived, the room was packed with people. They were all talking in small groups as I tried to get their attention to begin my talk. I had a message with good insights about the last days and I knew they…

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. Jan and her husband Lloyd had helped start our first Church of the Open Door …

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 closely at the picture on the cover of the puzzle box, to get a good idea of how the tiny puzzle pieces fit …

These past months, I have had the privilege of doing ministry in California, Nevada, Oklahoma, Ecuador, as well as here in Arizona. I have been with congregations large and small with a great variety of worship styles and different doctrinal emphasis. Yet they all love and serve Jesus Christ.

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 already prepared on Saturday when the attacker in El Paso, Texas, killed twenty-two…