by Dennis Stevenson | May 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Childhood memories are some of the best. Profound, emotional, significant. Our experiences growing up shape us – sometimes in surprising ways. I have been contemplating one such memory. It ties into my latest book. As in… the book wouldn’t be a book...
by Dennis Stevenson | May 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the US where I live, today is Mother’s Day. So I would be remiss if I didn’t start off with a greeting and hearty “Happy Mother’s Day” to all the mothers reading this. I’ve been chewing on something for a couple weeks....
by Dennis Stevenson | May 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have a stack of books sitting on my desk. I actually use them as a stand for a lamp. But I chose them because they are big books and I needed some height on the lamp. What are the books? They are reflections on plays and movies written by the people who were a part...
by Dennis Stevenson | Apr 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Pardon me for going all “King James” on you with the subject line. But I’ve been thinking about Palm Sunday and an oft-overlooked character in the scene. Namely, the transportation. Yes, I’m talking about the donkey – or in King Jimmy...
by Dennis Stevenson | Mar 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
A few days ago I got an email from an author I follow. The this email had a subject line that jolted me to my core. “We all deserve unconditional grace and forgiveness.” I literally felt like an electric charge zapped through my body when I read that. This...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve said many times that reading the Bible is the greatest thing you can do to advance your spiritual maturity. Today I have to tell you a story about why this is the case. I have a theological pet peeve. It’s a topic that I’m opinionated on, but...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
As a Bible Student, I’m always looking for patterns in the text. Complementary patterns. Contrasting patterns. Repeating patterns. Patterns give me a structure around which meaning can be determined and clarified. As I was reading Eliphaz’s first speech in...
by Dennis Stevenson | Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! It’s so odd for me to say that it’s now 2025. That’s the kind of date that I used on strategic planning documents in the late 1990s when I wanted to pick a date “really far out in the future”. Now it’s what I...
by Dennis Stevenson | Jan 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Have you ever come across one of the genealogies in the Bible and mentally thrown up your hands, as if to say “how could this possibly be helpful?” This week in my daily Bible reading I read through the genealogy from Noah to Abraham in Genesis...
by Dennis Stevenson | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
HI , I live in Arizona, where we’ve been having record heat. Every day in July topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius). No matter how you measure it, that’s hot! So the family and I got away from the heat at the end of the month. We took a...
by Dennis Stevenson | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Since I live in the desert of Arizona, last month was brutally hot. It’s normally hot in July, but this was extra special. The average day was 113 degrees Fahrenheit and the average overnight low was 93 degrees. Strictly speaking, we are in monsoon season....
by Dennis Stevenson | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s a phenomenon that we mark every year. And every year it draws comments about the timing. But this year really takes the cake! I’m talking about the advent of Christmas decorations in stores. I had to run a quick errand to Costco yesterday (quick...
by Dennis Stevenson | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Have you ever started out down a path, thinking it was a good direction to go, only to find out (later) that it had a ton of unadvertised requirements? Maybe if you’d know about all the consequences up front, you’d have made a different choice? That moment...
by Dennis Stevenson | Jul 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Although it can seem fantastical when you read. Especially in the Old Testament. Giants, floods, resurrections, skeleton armies… It reads like a high fantasy story, not the word of God’s word. It’s really important for the...
by Dennis Stevenson | Nov 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you want to focus on thanksgiving in the month of November, here’s a fun little activity for you. Based on a tradition that my family has done for decades (see the cute little booklet my mom sent me), each day establishes a “thankfulness price”...
