By: Victor Morgan It’s that time of the year. Summer is in full swing. Fields of corn can be seen growing along highways. Roadside vegetable stands are open for business. Home gardens are producing at times more vegetables than needed for the table. The over-plus is being canned and frozen. Summer is not only a…

By: Tom Jordan “I (God) will set him on high, because he has known My name.” (Psalm 91:14b).  The locks of a canal are truly an amazing construction feat. A ship comes into the first set of locks. The giant front gates are closed and then the rear gates close, making the ship immobile. Nothing…

By: Yonatan Hambourger At some point, most people make a quiet decision.  Not a dramatic one. No announcement. No conscious declaration.  They simply stop believing that their response to someone else’s suffering will really change anything. The need feels too large. The problems too endless. The people too far gone. Over time, compassion begins narrowing…

By: Gene Crawford Mediocre is not a word most people welcome when it describes them. It means average, ordinary, or merely good enough to get by. Being average in some areas of life is not necessarily wrong. The danger comes when we consistently settle for mediocrity and allow it to keep us from reaching our…

By: Tom Jordan “Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light,” (1 Peter 2:9). Years ago I went to West Virginia and took a tour down into the Keystone Mine. I had never understood the concept of feeling the darkness or not being able to see your hand in front of…