A handyman and a mortgage broker built their businesses with a heart toward serving the Lord through their work. This was easy...
The word of God doesn’t just sit there like a museum of antique truth that you can visit if you wish, but otherwise avoid. It is, as we read in Hebrews, “alive and...
As a school administrator, I am responsible for thirty teachers of English. A few come to work late or turn their paperwork in late. Sometimes they seem genuinely disconnected from their work.When...
There are times when we struggle because our lifestyle has been inconvenienced, and there are times when things get so bad that we struggle to make it through the day. My family has experienced...
It is the truth that many children gain their first sense of a higher being through Santa Claus. Sure they had Bible stories at church, but Santa brings a real emotional punch to...
Being a waitress is a challenge. I know, I did it for years. In our culture, waiting tables is just a bit above collecting garbage, with all due respect to garbage collectors. It's...
<< Read Part 1, Conform or Transform << Read Part 2, Rise to the Top At work in a secular workplace, Daniel...
When I was a teenager, I wanted to figure out God. I thought that if I worked hard enough and was completely logical, then everything about God would ultimately make sense. In retrospect...
Abraham Lincoln told the story of an Eastern monarch who commanded his wise men to create a sentence. This sentence would be cut in stone and always be in view. It must be...
One of the most "Christian" thoughts I've ever heard about attitude came from Michael Jordan in 1989. The Chicago Bulls were in...
Geologists teach us that mountains do, in fact, move. The towering mountain ranges of this world are a result of the slow movement of the earth’s tectonic plates. Even now, Mt. Everest is...
I used to tell one of my children, "You have an attitude problem." Needless to say, such remarks only made the situation...
When I was a young man, verses like this one disturbed me. I just couldn’t accept the notion that God could be angry. For me, anger seemed like the antithesis of love. How...
The Servant of God in Isaiah 53 suffers for the sake of others. Because he is righteous, and because he bears the...
Chris Godfredsen was a high school quarterback once. He knows first-hand what intentional grounding is. Recently he reinterpreted that phrase in a very creative way. Check it out. ...
When we read this passage from Isaiah 53, we immediately think of the crucifixion of Jesus. He was literally pierced, crushed, beaten, and whipped. Even more painful was the alienation he...
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a time set aside to remember what God has done for us and to offer thanks for his generosity and grace. Therefore, I thought we...
I love having fans. I don't have many (Have you ever heard of me?) but I'm always on the lookout for more. Over the years I've developed a knack for locating these people...
God works in amazing and surprising ways. Given his glory and power, we might well expect that his Servant would be equally glorious and powerful. In a sense, this is ultimately true. But Isaiah...
Israel was a small nation, one that had been an easy target for larger empires seeking expansion. The Persians overthrew the northern kingdom in the eighth century BC. The Babylonians invaded the...
