Jesus said, “This is how you should pray: Father, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon.” Luke 11:2 For those of us who have grown up praying the Lord’s...
Somehow it happens. Between listening to bedtime stories and skinned knees and first dates and college and a wedding, and then you’re the mom telling bedtime stories and kissing skinned knees and going...
In 1982, when I was a sophomore at Baylor University, Tony Campolo spoke at a state-wide gathering of Christian college students. By the end of his sermon, provincial scales had fallen from my...
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Transcript “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!” Those words boomed behind Brenda as she left her boss’s office. And she resented every word. The problem was not her fault. Besides, her boss...
Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him. Luke 10:33 The parable we...
Deep down, I'm a free spirit. If I had my choice, I would prefer a world where I was the one to...
I walked into the dining room and gasped. Oh my, what a two-year-old can do in a brief space of time! While I'd been chopping, frying, and boiling, she'd been stringing, draping, and...
If you are eager to learn how to love God and neighbor in the context of your work, you cannot do it...
I was face to face with my image in the mirror, mascara wand in hand, mouth open and eyebrows raised - the pose I strike when it’s time for mascara. There, in that...
The Gospels teach us that we are to love God with our whole being and our neighbor as ourself. But how are...
I’m driving down a Michigan road on a winter afternoon. An old red barn crumbles in front of me, and I see a corn field stretching far into the distance. I’m out here...
“My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses...
It's been a long time since I've had a job that was mind-numbing, boring— a job I kept solely for the purposes...
