Month: July 2022

He Will Be With You

“The Lord is indeed going before you—he will be with you;  he will not fail you or abandon you.  Do not be afraid or discouraged!”  (Deuteronomy 31:8, NET) The verse above has become one of our “go-to” verses. When Moses commissioned Joshua to take his place as the leader of the people of Israel, he…
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Miracle on Ice

Dateline: Winter, 1980; Idaho Falls, ID.  Bruce was in the middle of a plant shutdown. Working for Westinghouse at the Naval Reactors Facility and the A1W prototype for the USS Enterprise was in a scheduled maintenance period. He and his engineers were at the site providing technical support. Two thousand four hundred miles away at…
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Our Source of Energy

“He gives strength to those who are tired;  to the ones who lack power,  he gives renewed energy.”  (Isaiah 40:29, NET) Isaiah’s readers were tired and discouraged captives in Babylon. He wrote to encourage them and reminded them that “…The Lord is an eternal God, the creator of the whole earth. He does not get…
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I Will … Protect You

“…Go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.  Do not be afraid of those to whom I send you,  for I will be with you to protect you,” says the Lord.”  (Jeremiah 1:7–8, NET) Before the prophet Jeremiah was even born he had been chosen by God to spread the Lord’s…
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