Historical fiction Jacob woke early while it was yet dark. Light was just starting to stream through the one small open window of their two-room house built of stone and mud. Soon, he could hear his aging mother and father’s scurrying feet on the dirt floor as they prepared to ...

This headstrong, authoritarian leader inserted himself into history and the New Testament for only one reason. He sentenced Jesus to death. Pilate was an ambitious, self-seeking politician with one prime focus: himself – and how to obtain power. His family was probably from the warlike Samnite clan originating in the ...

I do not like to fish, but many do in the beautiful Northwoods Lake area of North Wisconsin (2500 lakes in six counties). My dad took me fishing a few times. It seemed that the fish were few, but the mosquitos were abundant. I caught a few fish (about the ...

Observe all our rules, please! Growing up in church, I heard people say, jokingly, “I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t cuss, and I don’t hang out with people who do.” And perhaps a spiritual answer to that might be, “That’s true also of a fencepost. What do you ...

Lord, I’m tired of being alone. It had been almost four years since the love of my life, my first wife of 53 years, had passed away. For 39 years, we lived together in our last house. After she passed, I continued – alone – in that same house. Same ...