As I thought about what picture I wanted for the banner on my website, I remembered the family picture we took at the base of the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park.

Nothing can prepare you for the enormity of those trees!  They tower into the sky with a magnificence that makes you feel small. They have been growing generation after generation.  Their thick bark has allowed them to withstand fire, pestilence and drought.

They are to me a living picture of the generations that have gone before us - men and women who have fought the good fight of faith and lived well.  Take some time to read Hebrews chapter 11 in the Bible, and ask yourself, "Which one of these people is an inspiration to me?"

Is it Noah, who received instructions from God that did not make any sense, yet he followed God’s word to the letter?

Is it Sarah, who believed God for the impossible?

Or maybe it is… Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, ... David, Samuel or...