Other World
Written by Mike Verkaik This past week I quickly stopped into the administration office at Holland Christian. As I was walking out, I ran into the former principal whose granddaughter had gone on Oceans Kingdom Encounter the previous summer. She stopped me and asked, “Did you read Bella’s writing in this year’s Scripta booklet? She […]
Sing the Song of Pentecost
It was 24 years ago and I still vividly recall spending the day in prayer by the beautiful Pacific Ocean. I was pondering Habakkuk 2:14, and felt prompted to write in my journal, “one day you will be part of a ministry called Oceans!” I was reminded of that life altering moment as last week […]
The Awakening
A Great Awakening. This powerful movie portrays the real-life friendship of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin and the pioneering evangelist from England George Whitefield. Based on Whitefield’s personal journals, this movie depicts the spiritual revival of the 1730’s and brings to light how this revival impacted the founding of the United States. One profound moment of […]
What’s Right With Our World?
G.K. Chesterton, the prolific British author once posed the question, “what’s wrong with the world?” and left many stunned when he answered, “I am!” In our day if you would ask that question on social media I would imagine very few would respond, “I am!” We live in an cultural climate where it is everyone […]
Theo of Golden
My genre of reading doesn’t include a lot of fiction novels. However, Patty received a New York Times Bestseller from our daughter-in-law which she couldn’t put down and she kept telling me, “you have to read this.” So one day when she was out I cracked open the book and for the next 6 […]
One Night in a Bad Hotel
Have you ever spent a night in a shady hotel? We left Colorado and were driving back to California. This was way before the days of cell phones, and I promised our kids we could stop at a hotel with a swimming pool. As evening approached we got off the freeway in Richfield, Utah. The […]
