Category: General

2,080 Years Old

This olive tree is located in an area called Fara Sabina north of Rome, Italy and was tested to be 2,080 years old. This means this tree took root and came to life approximately...

A Promise to Return

If you were to drive approximately forty-five minutes south of the city of Naples, Italy through the region of Campania, towards the city of Sorrento you would pass this scenic overlook. Looking across the...

Through the Eyes of Faith

Moments like these are rare. It is not often that I find myself still enough to enjoy a quiet moment with the object of my attention in the same state of peace and quiet...

Sign of the Times

It is that time of the year when local landscapes that routinely go unnoticed suddenly have a presence of beauty. A radiant variety of colors that gave no hint of their existence suddenly burst...

Night Watch

Years ago I learned the splendor of rising early. I find when things are most still and quiet it is then when God’s handiwork speaks the loudest and is the most obvious. This day...

A Simple Plane Ride

A routine commercial flight several thousand feet up reveals a world of activity that goes largely unnoticed in our daily living. The passing of clouds being chased by their shadows are endless in their...

Faith and Politics

A couple of miles off the coast of Mexico near the port city of Puerto Vallarta is the convergence of the Pacific Ocean with the Bay of California, resulting in a body of water...

Searching for a Faith Experience

For many years my faith was predominately based on information. That is, starting as child and continuing to my early 30’s my faith was exclusively based on my knowledge of God through denominational teachings...

Faith Revealed Generation to Generation

The impact our parents and past generations have on us is not realized quickly.  Now I see that the foundation of my faith was constructed in those formative years with my parents.  A reverence for...

Book Release

“The Evidence of Things Unseen – Faith Revealed in a Family, in a Community and a Nation is now available on WWW.Westbowpress.com/bookstore, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble retail outlets in Hardback, Paperback and E-book....