“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: as soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.” Look at the world around us. Are not the signs of […]

“A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished” (Proverbs 22:3). Last Wednesday night at 2:30 a.m. in the Ozarks of Missouri, I was stirred awake by a loud crack of thunder. Looking out from our bedroom window, I could see the rain was moving sideways. I ran […]