Category Archives: The Traveler

You’ve seen it on television…people on some South Pacific islands celebrating the new year first, then Australia, then New Zealand, and finally the big ball dropping in Times Square in New York City with thousands of people shouting the countdown from the number 10.  What really changes for YOU at that pivotal moment in time—at 12:01Continue reading “January 2012: Happy New Year”

[Note:  Some of you may have the strange feeling you’ve read some of this before.  You have!  Last December. We received such an overwhelming response from it last year, that we feel God wants us to repeat some of it this year . . . especially for our thousands of new readers who’ve joined usContinue reading “December 2011: Merry Christmas”

First, I want to wish each of you a very thank-full Thanksgiving during this month we celebrate a national day of thanksgiving TO GOD! here in USAmerica. I hope you’re living a daily lifestyle of thanks-living, not merely saying you’re thankful! The Real Road To Wellville  A few years ago Hollywood produced a movie entitledContinue reading “November 2011: Forgiveness”

For years, many of my students and friends—and some in my family—have asked me to write my autobiography.  I did! And it’s now hot off the press and presently available for you to order from me or from amazon.com, both as a paperback and as an e-reader.    If you order it directly from me, I’ll autograph yourContinue reading “October 2011: How We Got The Bible”

Happy Second Anniversary! Each September’s issue of The Traveler is devoted to reviewing the previous 12 months of The Traveler . . . and personal events in our lives.  The Traveler is usually only three pages in length; each September, it is four pages.  We began publishing The Traveler two years ago in September 2009.  At first, we planned to provide it by e-mailContinue reading “September 2011: Anniversary Issue”

I usually ask God about six months ahead of its “publication” date what He wants me to write in The Traveler that you will read six months later.  When He informs me what He wants me to write, then I start studying the Bible, praying about it, and writing that issue.  For example, I began writing this issueContinue reading “August 2011: Three Essential Qualities”

 Provi-dence n. the care or benevolent guidance of God over the universe, earth, humanity, and individual humans.  No, this issue of The Traveler will not be a travelogue about a city in Rhode Island named Providence. But it will be a travelogue…of sorts. A travelogue about your journey through this mortal life. A notable theologianContinue reading “July 2011: Providence and The Master Potter”

The Travailer No, I didn’t spell “traveler” incorrectly.  The word “travel” comes from an old English word “”travail,” meaning “very hard labor and toil.”  “Travail” comes from a Latin word tripalium,” meaning “three stakes used as an instrument of torture.”  Kind of an interesting study of word origins, huh?  Where am I going with this?  I’m glad you asked.  With our modern cars, ships, and airplanesContinue reading “June 2011: Travel . . . Travail”

Continued from last month Every wilderness experience Holy  Spirit leads us into is custom-tailored by God for each of us so we can humble ourselves, learn from the experience, be tested, cleansed, and “broken.”  Then and only then can the Master Potter re-form, re-mold, re-shape, and re-store us more and more into the image of Jesus,Continue reading “May 2011: The Wilderness #2”

Wilderness: n.  A dry, hot place;   a wild, isolated, barren, place;  an obscure or unknown place; a deserted, desolate place. The English word, “wilderness,” appears over 300 times in the Bible, making it an important subject simply by the large number of references.  Bible scholars and teachers often focus on the “wilderness experience” of Jesus (Luke 4:Continue reading “April 2011: The Wilderness #1”