Those who live in the great and beautiful state of Alaska have a daily exposure to some of the greatest and most epic geography on earth. Everyday on my short commute to work, the rugged Chugach mountains tower over me just mere miles from away. At this time in the year, the birch trees are…
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5 Exodus 10:21-23 describes the 9th Plague: Darkness. At face value, this 9th plague appears to be minor compared to the other plagues, which brought about physical discomfort, the destruction of plants and crops, and the death of humans, and animals….
An author named Earnest Becker won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 for a book he wrote entitled “The Denial of Death.” I read this book as an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University in 1978, and I should say that it had a strong influence over my pre-salvation thinking. Becker, an atheist, sees man…
Yesterday our church family, along with hundreds more, celebrated the life of John Sliwinski. A husband, father, respected Alaskan Aviator, and most importantly a born-again believer. Being both a participant and observer I was moved by several observations. First was the multitude of people that came, some even from out of the state, to pay…
One of the sad impacts of COVID has been the inability of Grace Christian School to have our annual mission trips that we send students on each year. I realize that there are people who feel short-term mission trips are not the best way to do missions, and I would agree with that if short…
“In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Sovereign One sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he…
There’s a lot in the news right now. Economic difficulties are evident from the most recent jobs report. Violence has broken out again in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas. And huge controversy surrounds the upcoming Olympic games in both Tokyo and Beijing. These headlines are grabbing a lot of the attention. What we…
On June 1, 2008, a fire broke out in a section of Universal Studios Hollywood. What began as routine, overnight maintenance on the roof of some of the buildings used by the studio led to a significant fire that not only destroyed the theme park’s “King Kong” attraction, but also reached Building 6197. At the…
For some odd reason, men have developed a reputation for being unobservant. Now, while that’s a rash generalization to which every fiber of my testosterone-laced masculinity rebels, I have to remind myself of how many times I have opened the refrigerator door, taken a look around, and then called out to my wife, “Are we…
