“You are permitted to speak for yourself.” Paul was standing before Roman rulers – Agrippa and Festus — and a group of assembled dignitaries and officials of Caesarea. He stood chained, accused, and innocent of any crime against the Empire. And, yet, he remained in custody. It was his life...

Let's receive Grace to go beyond an ankle-, knee-, or loin-deep experience of His Life while on earth, and let's purpose to receive Grace upon Grace to get in "over our head-knowledge"  in His Love, as His Light continually unfolds to us Who He is, what He's like, who we...

Darkness came. For hours, Christ hung upon the Cross at Golgotha. At one point, all became shadow. This, I think, was a darkness like that described in Exodus, a darkness that could be felt, a deep night that beclouded heart and soul. That darkness came as the ninth plague in...

The wise men watched the skies. These men of night vision cataloged constellations and planets. The sighting of the “Star” must have been a moment unlike any other for them. Comets and asteroids came and went, but this Light was of another kind. It stood still, as if to show...

To those who remember her, Huli Valpasvuo was like a Sotkamo summer day. Her life was full of light. She seemed to shine all the time just as the midnight sun does in this village situated in central Finland, where dusk is a stranger during the months of June and...

In talking about Himself, Jesus used the story of Jonah to illustrate His place in this world. He told those seeking a sign from Him that the only sign they would get would be the sign of the prophet Jonah: “…An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and...