February 13th fell on a Tuesday that year, but it seemed like my unlucky day. My wife of twenty years was divorcing me; it would be final in two days. February 1, my employer had shown me the door—on the twenty-fifth anniversary of my employment. Now, on February 13, I was in my physician’s office getting test results. Unaware of my difficulties,...

Secret -concealed from general knowledge or view, hidden. (Webster's Dictionary) There are different kinds of secrets. Some are things hidden from our understanding, sometimes called the mysteries of life: how they built the pyramids, miracles, unexplained events. There are military secrets - confidential military matters, the CIA and spies. There...

Jack will jump off the bridge today. He won't stop traffic as he leaves this world. He's not a publicity seeker. At mid-span he'll slide over the safety railing onto a protruding support beam and plunge fifteen stories to his death. Last week he dropped a stone over the edge to time the fall. Seven seconds. A book at the library says skydivers...

Setting aside food, to feast on God, fosters intimacy with Him Denying ourselves. We do it to wriggle into a wedding dress or swimsuit. We do it as we train for an athletic event. We'll go without to achieve a promotion. We'll put our own desires aside when a close friend has a need. When our child has the flu, we drop everything. But when fasting...

A father in B.C. learns he has a deadly form of cancer.  How is he facing the challenge this Christmas season? Steve and Rachel Larsen clung to each other in a doctor's office that December day.  They had just received a stunning blow:  Steve, only 46, had cancer - and it was a bad strain.  "The tumor inside Steve's spinal cord is malignant,"...

"Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into (complete)salvation." - 1 Peter 2:2 During a Bible study with our JESUS film team in Mexico, we discussed the meaning of the above verse. A medical doctor in our group pointed out that the verse...

Evelyn Matzko sat back on her exercise bicycle, looked at her mileage meter, then at her watch and sighed. "Two more miles to go," she said softly. "Oh, this is so boring! I wish I could go back to riding my old bike outside as I used to do!" But the streets of her new neighborhood in were hillier than the streets around her former home. Even...