Tie two canoes together side by side and push them out onto a river, and something interesting happens. Each man in each canoe still has[…]

Picture a man walking down a gravel road out in the country with a fifty-pound sack of feed slung over his shoulder. It’s hot, the[…]

Anyone who has hiked a mountain trail knows what a switchback is. Instead of running straight up the face of the mountain, the path zigzags[…]

There’s an old story preachers have told for generations. A tired farmer is trudging down a dirt road with a heavy sack of grain on[…]

Spend an early morning on a Minnesota lake and watch a good fisherman work. He doesn’t drop a bare hook over the side and hope[…]

Drive through southern Minnesota in the middle of May, and you’ll pass mile after mile of fields where nothing seems to be happening. The ground[…]

Drive past a wheat field in late August, just before harvest, and look closely at the heads of grain. The ones that filled out well[…]

Out in farm country, you’ll often find an old rain barrel sitting under the corner of a barn roof. In a wet spring it runs[…]

TL;DR — Hope in Christ when life is hard is not the absence of pressure but the presence of a treasure: the light of the[…]

There is a stretch of every spring when a farmer has nothing at all to show for his work. He put the seed in the[…]