by Rik Danielsen, D. Min.

Recently, I watched a television show featuring the soldiers who guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. There were many moving aspects to the story, but for me, the most moving was the inscription on the tomb:

by Rik Danielsen, D. Min.

My wife and I like to watch TV shows about hoarders. Hoarders are those folks who have a serious mental illness that keeps them from throwing anything away. They have an emotional attachment to almost everything in their home including …

by Rik Danielsen, D. Min.

It was a late summer day in 1971 and we were just a couple of hippies who had become Christ followers sitting on the beach getting ready to study the Bible. The weather was sunny and the surf was rolling in as we sat there. I had noticed …

by Rik Danielsen, D. Min.

One of my favorite guys in the White Mountains was a rancher by the name of Jack Carlisle. Jack was my friend, a deacon, and music leader at the church I was serving. Early in my ministry there, I asked him if he was going to be spending …