APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  In that season, I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. My original plan had been to go straight from college to seminary. With a forthcoming degree in psychology, I found myself wanting to know more about what...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I heard the front door slam and my heart dropped, feeling beyond helpless, I could see our oldest son walking out into the vast acres of open land just beyond our property. We don't slam doors in our home,...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  We know that laws govern our natural world, the laws of gravity, relativity, and inertia, to name a few. Sometimes they work in your favor, like when gravity allows you to go for a walk without floating out into the atmosphere. Other...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Recently, when one of our sons was home on break from college, he hung around after family devotions. "Mom, Dad," he said, "don't ever stop doing that. Don't ever stop reading the Bible to my siblings." He...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  The warmth of the sun after days of rain beckoned us to the outdoors and we had to follow the siren call. We had great hopes of traipsing through orchards to pick our favorite apples, but our plans were...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  While doing some research on my backyard grapevine, which surprises me every year by surviving another northern Canadian winter, I stumbled across the word terroir. Terroir is used by wine tasters to describe how the soil in which a...