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One thing that should have happened when Christ came was that we would be persuaded to see a more Christ-like God.  In some ways that’s a hard thought for our minds to process.  Jesus was God’s direct intervention into the very definition of Who God was and is the...

Joy not happiness! I saw an interesting sign the other day, it said: Money can’t make you happy.  But, money can buy you a cow, a cow can give milk, you can make ice cream with milk.  Ice Cream can make you happy! Just like everyone else's, Jane's and my life can be...

While I was a student I worked at one of the early chain department stores.  I was responsible for the shoe/men’s wear department.  Neighboring those was the sewing department which was overseen by Ruth Dunn.  When Ruth wasn’t there I covered for her.  She taught me...

I celebrate a birthday in April.  I won’t tell you which one but it’s a few dozen.  Having another, a big number, birthday got me to thinking about my life a little more reflectively than perhaps I usually do.  Oh, I say pretty much the same things that most people...

WBVN just celebrated a birthday; January 8th, 1990, was our first day broadcasting CCM.  We’ve rotated thousands of songs for almost 16 million minutes of programming since that day.  Our first concert was on June 6th of that same year. There’ve been lots of little...

I drive a Jeep.  In some ways I’m not really a Jeep person because, while I drive a Jeep, I drive only up and down the highway or street.  The people I know that really ‘drive’ Jeeps for all they’re worth - the hardcore - they drive Jeeps in ditches, through creeks,...

(C. S Lewis noted in his book Mere Christianity: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we...

You could see the smoke from a mile away, and trouble always draws a crowd They wanna tell me that it'll be okay, but that's not what I need right now, not while my house is burning down I know someday, I know somehow, I'll be okay, but not right now Tell me if the...

For or Because Recently, during Mark Schultz’s concert, I heard his explanation of how, as a child, his brain worked about being adopted (and even now as an adult).  Seems Mark’s always been fearful that failing to please people might lead to being rejected, even by...

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 Just prior to making this statement God had asked Israel, “Why would you...

“Agnus Dei” (Lamb of God) Let’s go back to Genesis for a bit and revisit something that is still playing out in our world today.  Then in the same breath we’ll end up in the Book of Revelation.  It’s a long trip for sure, but here we go.   All creation has always been...

“So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with...

Oh, My!   Here’s my dilemma, I’m working in an office that has two ladies whose adult children are having their first child.  Yep, two of those at one time.   I mean where do you hide from that?  Or, should you hide from that?  It’s been over a decade since Jane and I...

(This is not a catch-all formula for all events that believers may experience.  It's just a conversation, a refreshing generated from some things Jane and I have had to face over the years, especially with spiritual pressure on our family or pressure on this WBVN...

Living from our hearts: Someone recently asked me my thoughts on the difference in a believer’s expression of 'living out of our heart' and contrast that with the more secular expression of 'following our heart'.  That, folks, cuts to the chase.  That might just be,...

Easter April 1, 2018: 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son...'  John 3:16 We need to slow that down a bit.  It's an amazing statement that I think we can so easily rush through because of its familiarity.  Image the character and heart of God revealed...

When questioned by his mother what he learned in Sunday School, eight-year-old Justin answered, 'We learned about when God sent Moses behind the enemy lines to rescue the Israelites from the Egyptians.  The teacher said that when they came to the Red Sea, Moses called...

WBVN:     'Birthed' on January 8th, 1990 "Can the rush grow up without the mire?"  I wrote that sentence in a newsletter back in 2004.  It was Bildad the Shuhite's question to Job in Chapter 8.  Bildad's purpose for that question was to be revealed in a later verse:...

I have either a relative, a friend, or perhaps just an acquaintance (I'll keep that secret) that's always fascinated me.  From my perspective I see the gifting of God in him, and at the same time I see him sometimes struggle to reason or evaluate whether God even...

I was looking at a photograph the other day of Debbie's grandchildren that acts as the desktop background on her office computer.  It's a photograph of a very young brother and sister; he embracing her, the 'her' is pre-occupied or at least focused on a tree leaf she...

'Christianity has been reduced to a set of mental beliefs and recitation of facts. So, we study about God, we study about Jesus, we study about salvation. We reduce everything to a formula: Ten steps to overcome temptation, you know five ways to...four ways to have...

Celebrating over 27 Years of WBVN's Contemporary Christian Music…  Contemporary Christian Music!  That's the moniker we've hung our hat on for over 27 years now.  We've described how Keith Green, Phil Keaggy, and Randy Stonehill might be considered the founding...

Pro_9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One, understanding.   Or my version with a bit of Col. 1-16 mixed in:  the recognition of the awesomeness of what He has done, that God is with us, that the Father, the Son, and...

'The morning star often appears between two and three at night, when the darkness is complete and the faintest sign of morning is not yet visible.  So small that it threatens to vanish, the star seems unable to vanquish the overpowering darkness.  Yet when you see the...

The past few months I’ve written about Prayer, Revelation, Hope, Incarnation, and Miracles, all of which I've never written about before during the 27 years of WBVN.  This month: the Future, well kind of. I don't really mean the kind of future we see on a calendar or...

Let's Get Personal: 27 years X 12 months...... It's post Celebration and let me say one more time, thank you to all the people that have supported and do support this ministry.  If there is such a thing as people being eternally grateful, that characterizes us about...

Ok, my suggestion is let's calm down a bit.  If you're a believer in Christ Jesus, you're in good hands.  Not to panic.  Oh, I know it looks bad, it sounds bad and actually it's pretty tough.  And perhaps you'd think that it's over.  But don't be discouraged.  Maybe...

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated (Greek word: not a question of who are the objects of the predestination, but what they are predestined to.) us...

We've just stepped into a new era, the election has come and gone, inauguration has taken place.  Elections are what man does to man.  They don't really hold the power of what The Father has done or does for man.  In the Kingdom that Jesus established, believers live...

Mat 11:27  All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. I wrote last month's newsletter on the incarnation of Jesus Christ and...