In Memory of Charles Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012) Chuck Colson emerged from prison, a new creation in Christ, in 1976, my second year of Bible college.  I had no idea at the time just how much impact he would have on my life through his writings, his testimony, and his missionary passion. [...]

It’s December again—time to celebrate the birth of Christ and the prospect of a fresh start in the New Year. As we ponder the Christmas story, we are reminded, once again, that in spite of all the trouble and insecurities that life can bring, remarkable things can happen. Just consider: A teenage girl who is [...]

My first Olympic outreach was in 1984, just a couple months after I married Stasia. For a couple of years a call to missions had been burning in my heart. In 1982, 30 days before his plane crash, Keith Green held a concert in Long Beach auditorium. Keith shared passionately his conviction that Jesus commanded [...]

Lately I have been looking back and reminiscing my past–those times “back in the day” when my faith was fresh and I was growing by leaps and bounds. Pictures of people come to my mind, significant others who stirred me, inspired me, and sometimes simply put me at awe. One such person was Bill Sprouse, [...]

History is filled with examples of people who saw a need, rose to the occasion, and did something to change their world. This is, in fact, the narrative we find in scripture. “And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets, [...]

I got my introduction to chess the same year I was converted to Christianity: 1972. For anyone who knows anything about international chess,  the summer ’72 featured the most famous chess event of all time: the world championship match between the Russian Boris Spassky and the American Bobby Fischer. Young Fischer was a phenom—a young [...]

It was the best part Liam Neeson ever played, the best film Steven Spielberg ever directed, and the Best Picture of 1993. So good was this film that it is ranked 8th among the 100 best American films of all time. It showed us all that even in the darkest of times a flicker of [...]

They say a picture paints a thousand words. We experienced a thousand pictures this evening by the lake, which makes us memory millionaires, I guess! We took a couple of kites, hoping for some wind. Arriving about an hour before sundown, we and the kids ran like troopers back and forth, again and again, trying [...]

Eleven years ago today my mother passed from this earth. In the weeks before passing she wrote several letters and kept mentioning how excited she was about the baby my wife and I were expecting. It is almost as if there was a special connection. Destiny Rose, who was born just two months after mom [...]

I’ve never ventured to shared this story before. It’s one of my  my “naked faith” experiences I had while on the mission field in Asia.  As you will see (if you bear with me through the long narrative) it is “Outside the Box” of normal human experience, at least in the Western world…TRUE STORY. In [...]