The small girl in the school parking lot stomped her feet. “I can do it myself!” she said, determined to carry her heavy backpack into the classroom. Only a moment later, with a...
"Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms." 1 Pet. 4:10 Those of us familiar with the language of the Bible...
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your...
How do you make your workday fruitful and serve God at the same time?
One Sunday morning while attending a church in the suburbs of Boston, I had a surprisingly authentic moment with a complete stranger.
As our children got older, it only got tougher trying to manage everything.Infants: Okay, not enough sleep, but no big deal. It's off to work in the morning as normal. Toddlers: They start...
As a boy, my mother routinely reminded us to wipe our feet when we dashed into the house at full speed. She rarely even looked up as we came in. She just knew...
Reformissionary Steve McCoy and his family have had a hard year. He's chronicled his wife Molly's Chiari I Malformation on his blog...
In the ancient world it was thought that if you knew a person's name you had power over that person. People were understandably cautious in sharing their names. We modern people tend to...
Advertisers have it rough. They promote products, so we naturally blame them for the month we just spent dodging (and being hit...
In the Great Depression, John Smithers lost his life savings. A woman read of Smithers’ downfall and bemoaned: “The investments of a lifetime! Gone!” But another woman who knew John said...
Introducing a Change in Weekend Daily Reflections:Starting yesterday, I began to try something new in these Daily Reflections. During the week, I’ll continue to work passage by passage through a...
Introducing a Change in Weekend Daily Reflections:Beginning today, I’m going to try something new in these Daily Reflections. During the week I’ll continue to work passage by passage through a book...
This story is so great that I don't feel adequate for the task of introducing it. It is a story of unbelievable...
Isaiah’s vision has often stretched beyond that of the other Hebrew prophets. He has repeatedly seen, for example, all nations coming to worship the God of Israel, and even participating in God’s...
Isaiah 65 begins with a tragic thought. God stood ready to help his people, but they didn’t bother to call upon him. He was ready to be found by his people, but they...
As the prophet looks upon the mess Israel made of its life, his thoughts turn to the mystery of God’s inaction, or even God’s participation, in the rebellion of Israel: “Lord, why have...
From the beginning, Israel was to play a unique role as a priestly nation to the world. When God first made a covenant through Moses, he said to the Israelites, “Now if you...
We can only begin to imagine the shock Mary must have felt when hearing the news that she would bear a child, even though she had not been sexually intimate with a man...
