“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or hour.” (Matthew 25:13) We were on one of those “around the world in 10 days” trips. It was December and my husband Marvin and I, along with another couple, had been on the road – actually in the air – for five days. We [...]

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or hour??? (Matthew 25:13) We were on one of those “around the world in 10 days??? trips. It was December and my husband Marvin and I, along with another couple, had been on the road – actually in the air – for five days. We [...]

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or hour??? (Matthew 25:13). We were on one of those “around the world in 10 days??? trips. It was December and my husband Marvin and I, along with another couple, had been on the road – actually in the air – for five days. We [...]

It was December and my husband, Marvin, and I, along with another couple, were on one of those “around the world in 10 days” trips. We’d been in the air for five days already and were feeling weary. I was eager to get home to complete my Christmas preparations. We had been in Ethiopia and [...]

We were on one of those “around the world in 10 days” trips. It was December and my husband, Marvin, and I, along with another couple, had been on the road – actually in the air – for five days. We were getting weary, and I was eager to get home to complete my Christmas [...]

In my perfect world, the criminal will be caught, publicly apologize with profuse crying and groveling, and then sent away to the Island of No-Return. Forgiveness? What a ridiculous idea!

“Because the Lord God helps me, I will not be dismayed. Therefore, I have set my face like flint to do his will, and I know that I will triumph.” (Isaiah 50:7) For years my husband had a pilot’s license — just for small planes. ? He enjoyed flying very much. One summer, he and [...]

“‘And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory within.’” (Zechariah 2:5) ? When Esther and Geoff, my daughter and son-in-law, with their three children (my only grandchildren) prepared to go to Senegal as missionaries, I was worried. After all, they would be traveling [...]

“You don’t need to be afraid of the dark any more, nor fear the dangers of the day…. For the Lord says, ‘Because he loves me, I will rescue him; I will make him great because he trusts in my name’” (Psalm 91:5,14). “Ladies and gentlemen, we should be out of the storm in a [...]

Many people who are considering short-term missions for the first time do so with no small degree of trepidation. After all, it’s never easy to leave your comfortable, predictable life and step into a strange, new place where life is anything but predictable. People will talk differently there. They’ll think differently. They’ll drive differently. And [...]