Every so often, you come into a situation that, when you look back on it, has to be divine appointment rather than coincidental happenstance. I was talking about this very thing the other day to my friend, John, who lost his son Troy in an accident earlier this summer. Several things have happened after Troy’s…

“In France, just as in New York and everywhere, how much people hunger for love: that is a terrible form of poverty, without comparison with the poverty of Africans and Indians. It’s not so much how much you give, but the love with which you give that counts. Pray that it begins in your own…

“Alarmed by such tendencies, Teddy Roosevelt, in a 1917 letter, weighed in thusly: “The things that will destroy America are … the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.” T.R.’s fears of what the typical American might become are perhaps best embodied by our current national mascot, Homer Simpson, a…

Right before Dave Carey left, he and I collaborated on a new logo for the youth group at Voice. Scott Starkweather, the new director, wanted to use the name IGNITE. Naturally, the idea of fire came into the picture so we took some fire photography that I had shot, and Dave, being so multi-talented, was…