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My daughter has her driver’s permit.Last Sunday night, I let her drive in the dark for the first time.After she drove ar...
06/08/2026

My daughter has her driver’s permit.

Last Sunday night, I let her drive in the dark for the first time.

After she drove around and pulled into the driveway, I said, “So, how do you feel about driving at night? What do you think?”

She said, “It’s different! I can’t see to my left. I can’t see to my right. I can only see the light in front of me. So I’ve got to focus on the light!”

In this life, the LORD is the Light. In Psalm 27:1, the writer says, “The LORD is my light and my salvation.”

So, when it’s dark in your life, when problems try to discourage you, when worry tries to distract you, don’t look to the left. Don’t look to the right. But focus on the Light.

The LORD is the Light.

A couple of months ago, it seemed like, every week, while I was typing my sermon, my computer would crash, and I would l...
06/01/2026

A couple of months ago, it seemed like, every week, while I was typing my sermon, my computer would crash, and I would lose some of my files.

So, one day, after it crashed on me again, I said, “You know what? It’s time for us to go our separate ways! Love doesn’t live here anymore!”

I rushed to the Apple Store and bought a new computer.

After the sales associate described the wonderful features of this new computer, I skipped out of there with my new MacBook Pro, smiling from ear to ear.

But the only issue with the new device is that it takes about an hour or two to set it up how I want. And given my busy schedule this semester, I just didn’t have the time to set it up.

So, when I brought the computer home, I placed it on the dining room table.

That was two months ago!

For the past two months, my new, powerful computer had been in the box on the dining room table.

In the meantime, I kept using my old computer.

But about a week ago, while I was working on a sermon, the old computer crashed on me again.

Enough was enough.

I finally pulled the new computer out of the box.

And I confess that I am absolutely in love with this new computer. I’m on cloud nine!

I’m so happy because I finally opened the box!

I’m no longer stuck with the problems of the old thing because I opened the box to the new thing.

God has a new thing for you—a new blessing, a new opportunity, a new possibility. All you have to do is open the box.

06/01/2026

Just You Wait (1 Samuel 16:1–12) 5.31.26

When I was a kid, I used to get excited when my mom bought products that came in boxes.I wouldn’t get excited about the ...
05/25/2026

When I was a kid, I used to get excited when my mom bought products that came in boxes.

I wouldn’t get excited about the product itself.

But I would get excited about the bubble wrap that enclosed the product.

Why? Because I would pop the bubble wrap—and pop it, and pop it, and pop it some more—and then stomp on it and twist it.

I eventually discovered that the primary purpose of the bubble wrap was not for me to pop it.

But the purpose of the bubble wrap was to protect the product inside the bubble wrap.

Although the product may have been tossed around, turned around, and thrown around, it was protected because it was inside the bubble wrap.

In this life, you may be tossed around, turned around, and thrown around. But as long as you are bubble-wrapped by the peace of God, you are protected.

The peace of God is your bubble wrap.

05/24/2026

Sticking It Out in a Storm (Mark 4:35–41) 5.24.26

Back in the day, when I was about eleven, I played basketball for Glenwood Elementary School in Waukegan, Illinois.In th...
05/18/2026

Back in the day, when I was about eleven, I played basketball for Glenwood Elementary School in Waukegan, Illinois.

In the championship game, we were beating our opponents like they stole something. We were beating them like Della Reese beat Eddie Murphy in Harlem Knights.

In the fourth quarter, we were leading 44-9.

But that wasn’t enough for me.

During the final minutes of the game, I was yelling, “Don’t let them get over ten! Don’t let them get over ten! Don’t let them get over ten!”

It seemed to me that we’d look more dominant if they had only a single-digit number.

I wanted to make it clear that they were no match for us.

In the same way, even though life is filled with storms, your storm is no match for the Lord.

A few weeks ago, I took my daughter to see the musical The Wiz. At the show, there was an intermission. An intermission ...
05/11/2026

A few weeks ago, I took my daughter to see the musical The Wiz. At the show, there was an intermission. An intermission is a break between parts of the musical.

At the point of intermission, I knew the play wasn’t over because there was unresolved conflict in the story. The conflict at the intermission was resolved after the intermission.

Right now, you may be enduring conflict in your life. But if you’re still here, your story is not over. It’s not the end for you. It’s only the intermission. God is not finished with you.

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