Dear Friends, One of the most intelligent and wealthiest men I know sits across the table from me. We are sharing our testimonies at lunch. His is simple, “I had to give in to Christ because I knew him to be real and I finally realized that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t […]

Dear Friends, Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,  and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were […]

Dear Friends, He said to them, “When I sent you out without a purse, bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “No, not a thing” He said to them, “But now, the one who has a purse must take it, and likewise a bag. And the one who has no sword must sell […]

Dear Friends, As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes” (Luke 19:41-42). Jesus is a realist. He is reduced to a warm fuzzy blur by all of the heart-tugging […]

Dear Friends, All to Jesus, I surrender; Humbly at His feet I bow, Worldly pleasures all forsaken; Take me, Jesus, take me now. — Judson W. Van DeVenter, 1896 “Go south to the road — the desert road — that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza” (Acts 8:26, NIV). That’s what the Angel of the […]