God is a master craftsman who has given us everything we need. His gifts are beautiful, well-built, and practical. We, however, are like ducks.
John the Baptist is like God’s dynamite in today’s passage. He’s preparing the way for the Lord by shocking people into mending their ways.
We hear so many announcements in the public square today that even the stuff called “breaking news” seems commonplace.
A few years ago, a powerful hurricane put my city, my neighborhood, and my house in the dark for nights on end.
When I was a kid growing up in cold Minnesota winters, I would build snow forts and have snowball fights with friends.
Perhaps the disciples' hearts were burning at his teaching along the road, but they actually saw him for who he is when he had bread in his hands and a plate of food...
The kingdom of God is about community, and we choose whether to enter or not.
When Jesus calls us to love our enemies, we might wonder what that really means in practice. Surely, we're not to get all warm and fuzzy when we think about those who seek...
Jesus teaches us to connect our request for divine forgiveness with a strong statement of our own...
Surrendering our lives to Jesus Christ means owning up to the deep, deep needs in our world. God is truly counting on...
God challenges us to move toward those whom we consider to be so very far off the mark.
God reveals himself in the slow and ordinarily commonplace avenues of reality.
Defining the right purposes of every resource—from generic to specific—helps us live out our own right purposes. Sam Van Eman reminds us of God’s call to make right uses of useful stuff. ...
We love to give back to an employer we respect. Sam Van Eman explores why by imagining a world where employers play...
Job challenges range from gruesome to crippling. How we handle them makes a world of difference. Sam Van Eman offers three truths...
Have you had seasons of life that felt as if you were living between death and resurrection?
I was a Girl Scout during my younger years. I learned a great deal through my experiences with scouting. One key lesson...
Teach us to listen to you, and to remember that we are never alone.
During one of the semester breaks of my college years, I volunteered to help strip and wax the floors of our student...
In the first stave of Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t have much enthusiasm for Christmas.
