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When you’re gone, how will you be remembered? Right before summer break the yearbooks came in. A hardcover pictorial of the 2018-19 school year. Students busily flipped pages, pointing, laughing, [...]

Dearest Students, Sometime early in your freshman year I said to you, “Blink three times and you’ll be seniors getting measured for your graduation robes.” I could tell by the “Whatever, Mr. T…” [...]

They’ve been together so long I can’t think of one without the other. They were separated for a time. But they never looked right standing alone. Now they’re back where they belong, a matched [...]

Tis’ the season to see family photographs on Facebook. Electronic versions of Thanksgiving and Christmas cards. This morning I looked at a very nice one of the Lyndon Johnson family. Not [...]

When God pointed me toward seminary back in 1993 I moved from LeMars, Iowa (population 10,000) to Phoenix, Arizona (population way more than 10.000). For being a farm kid, I adjusted surprisingly [...]

What will you do today that will still be making a difference 40 years from now? Last week Trinity Christian students enjoyed our annual High School Retreat. A much anticipated event, it’s proven [...]

What’s the hottest you’ve ever been? What’s the coldest you’ve ever been? Residing in the Phoenix valley for 14 years, I lived through a lot of hot. In fact, there’s [...]

Got the news today that Ben Mulder died last night. I shed a few tears when I heard about it. I wondered where those tears came from since I haven’t seen the man in 30 years. He wasn’t family or [...]

I admit I didn’t pay much attention when he walked in. Hospital room doors should be revolving. The flow of nurses, doctors, therapists and staff never stops. In that moment, he was just another [...]

It’s April 11, 2014. Grandma Thompson would have been 114 today. Practically no one lives that long. She made it to 90, which is a pretty fair go at it. A full blood Swede, her parents came over [...]