When Jesus Comes to Wake Me Up

When Jesus Comes to Wake Me Up

“Mom, is there a God?” His question came out of the blue, and Mike’s mother knew she needed to get her 13-year-old son to church to meet his Creator. Saturday morning, she packed her seven children into the car and headed for the nearest Seventh-day Adventist church....

Tack Into the Wind

Tack Into the Wind

Question: When is the shortest path between two points a zigzag?  Answer: When sailing into the wind. Two miles off the coast of Texas we were cruising at a brisk eight knots on-board the Mayan Mystress, a 20-year-old catamaran whose better days were ahead of it....

The Gift of Encouragement

The Gift of Encouragement

The pandemic was in full swing, and all of us were pretty much isolated. Most of us were scared, thousands were dying, and there was no end in sight as COVID-19 took the world by storm. I was grateful to be working from home, but I felt the loss of human contact—and...