I never thought finding a job would be so challenging.
The more we allow God's Word to shape our relationship with him, the more we reflect upon the wonder of the cross...
Growing up in the church, I always heard the opening verses of Psalm 121 as an invitation to gaze upon the mountains...
The LORD is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him. For he knows how weak...
O LORD, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day. Psalm 88:13 Chances are you won’t hear...
Are you open to being surprised by God today? What helps you to have an open heart when God does the unexpected?
When you discover that your unmarried teen-age daughter is pregnant, you feel anger, grief, sorrow, and shame among other emotions.
Every now and then while I'm channel surfing on TV, I pause to listen to a preacher. And it's not uncommon to...
The beginning of Jeremiah 39 tells the sad tale of the fall of Jerusalem.
Chris threw down his bike and ran off with his friends. Minutes later, a repairman climbed into a truck, unaware of the boy's bike lying just behind his tire.The next sound was a...
Before sin ever entered the world, God created work to be a part of our experience.
In Psalm 81, the Lord invites Israel to receive the very best of his blessings. “Open your mouth wide,” he says, “and I will fill it with good things” (81:10). In order to...
Psalm 55:22 was one of the first verses of Scripture I memorized as a child: “Cast your burden on the LORD, and...
In yesterday’s reflection I talked about how the idea of God as father is difficult for many people because of their painful...
One Sunday morning while attending a church in the suburbs of Boston, I had a surprisingly authentic moment with a complete stranger.
So far in Romans, Paul has argued that all people fall short of God’s standards, both Jews and Gentiles. In light of...
Thus, the Lord is David’s glory in a double sense. David lives for God’s own glory, and God glorifies David, his faithful servant.
Years before this episode in Genesis 32, Jacob had fled from his home because his brother, Esau, was plotting to kill him. During his sojourn in a distant land, Jacob was blessed by...
The basement was dark, damp, musty—a forbidding place where my mother kept our canned fruits and vegetables. As a young boy I dreaded, "Gary, would you please go down to the basement . . .?" Was...
I had failed. Driving home, I shook my head: how could I have let people down like this?
