Recently I made changes to the script that updates the Daily Devotional each morning, to make it ready for Y2K, the year 2000. Many computers use only two digits to store dates, and without changes, they will interpret "00" as … Read more
During more than three years on the Internet, I have received innumerable e-mail virus warnings about not opening letters with various subjects, like "Join the Crew", "Good Times", "Penpal Greetings" or "It takes guts to say Jesus", because, they said, … Read more
No devotional was posted today because of a bug in the automatic update script. … Read more
How often, we like Elijah, try to cop out of our responsibilities, asking, "What can one person do?" Two hundred and twenty-two years ago, the Congress of the United States of America was gathered to debate the Declaration of Independence. … Read more
I've always thought of today's verse in much the same terms as throwing a bottle with a message in it into the ocean, to see if and where someone would find it. And there's a spiritual analogy to that. Because … Read more
I was walking down life's highway a long time ago. One day I saw a sign that read, "Heaven's Grocery Store". As I got a little closer the door came open wide, And when I came to myself I was … Read more
Last week I was visiting a couple whose daughter is likely to die of cancer before Christmas. They mentioned that their son was coming up from California for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving and Christmas are going to be tough for them this … Read more
Recently, my wife mentioned that she thought that the windshield wipers on our car were not working properly. She said they leaving streaks. The next time it was raining (which was soon in our West Coast climate!), I looked carefully … Read more
It may come as a surprise that more Christians have been martyred in the twentieth century than in the previous nineteen centuries combined. There are several reasons for this: 1. The Christian faith has grown very rapidly in third world … Read more