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What Is Happening In Israel?

I’m getting a lot of questions about what is happening in Israel. The fighting in the Middle East has been going on for thousands of years, and the problem will not be solved until Jesus ends it with His return.

Oct 13, 20232 min read

The Great Wall Of China From Space

Mark Twain once quipped, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” And Mark Twain never even lived to see the internet!Think about a couple of highly promoted claims that have become almost universally believed…

Oct 6, 20232 min read

How To Handle Adversity

I read a study a few years ago that highlighted the difference between those who bounce back after adversity and those who don’t. Bounce-back people see challenges in trouble and maintain a “can do” attitude, while remaining focused on those things in life that are bigger than them. People who don’t bounce back tend to be self-focused and negative thinkers.

Sep 29, 20232 min read

Flip The Script

Joseph was a script flipper. His brothers sold him into slavery and a few years after, they were bowing before him to serve him. He later told them, “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20).

Sep 22, 20232 min read

How Thick Is Your Skin?

How thick is your skin? I know, there’s a lot of talk about victims and snowflakes. But I’m not writing this post for you to point fingers. Do you have thin skin? When was the last time you were offended?

Sep 15, 20232 min read

Spiritual Magneto

Our airplane was grounded last week. We had a bad magneto, which is pretty important. A magneto is a simple but vital aircraft engine component, that is driven by the spinning engine and uses magnets to produce pulses of electricity for the spark plugs. Airplanes have two for redundancy, so even with one bad magneto, I was able to keep flying and landed safely.

Sep 9, 20232 min read

Pastor, Don’t Quit!

Labor Day weekend was a lot of things to a lot of people. To former pastor Alexander Lang of Arlington Heights, it was the weekend his article, “Why I Left The Church”, went viral. It was eaten up by multitudes of mostly millennials and some Gen-Zers who hail from evangelical backgrounds, though Rev. Lang himself is not an evangelical. Lang is a great writer and his article is both ar

Sep 7, 202310 min read

The Pardon

In 1830, George Wilson killed a government employee who caught him in the act of robbing the mail. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. However, then President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, sent him a pardon. But Wilson did a strange thing. He refused to accept the pardon and no one seemed to know what to do.

Sep 1, 20232 min read

Are You A Follower?

In his book None of These Diseases, S. I. McMillen tells a story of a young woman who wanted to go to college, but her heart sank when she read the question on her application that asked, “Are you a leader?” Being both honest and conscientious, she wrote, “No,” and submitted the application, expecting the worst. To her surprise, she received this letter from the college…

Aug 25, 20232 min read

Dinner in Rochelle

A couple years ago, shortly after getting my pilot’s license, Linda and I took an impulsive flight to Rochelle, Illinois for dinner. While many restaurants were still closed because of the pandemic, I had heard there was a decent restaurant at the airport that was open. We didn’t know anything about the restaurant, or whether the food would be good.

Aug 18, 20232 min read

Six Weeks

We are six weeks away! Six weeks from launching our fifth campus (fourth location)!The Bridge really is one church, though we currently operate four campuses in three locations (Spanish service is organized as a campus). Aren’t three locations enough? Why another one?

Aug 11, 20232 min read

Are You Catching Updrafts?

A couple of weeks ago, Linda and I were in Talkeentna, Alaska, at the foot of Denali National Park, and the foot of that giant mountain. Most people don’t know that Denali is earth’s tallest mountain from base to peak on land. Those mountains that are taller are part of very high ranges where the land surrounding them are at a much higher elevation.

Aug 4, 20232 min read

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