The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." ...
In the store that sold sleight-of-hand and magic gizmos, my youngest son held both the Amazing Disappearing Rabbits and the Amazing Disappearing Ink. He faced me with wide brown eyes. “Can’t I...
Since it began 35 years ago, Harvard University's legendary course on Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis...
It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the...
Listening is difficult because most of us are too busy speaking. God, on the other hand, listens generously to us, and He listens as we rattle on and on. The 20th century Christian...
The biggest geek in the senior class is sitting alone in the bustling high school cafeteria. He stares self-consciously at his plate, pushes his food around, counts the minutes until the period is...
The Four Cs of my Christian Walk begin with Christ. He is the Savior I acknowledge, and all things depend upon that decision. He is the mindset I live in. And in Him...
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. And I ask you also, true, yokefellow, help these women, for they have labored side by side with me in the...
Out here in western Iowa where I live, on the eastern emerald cusp of the Great Plains, on some balmy early fall days, it's not hard to believe that we are not where...
I have been a writer for 28 years, and anyone who creates anything knows the road is paved with doubt. Can I write? Am I a fool to think that I can compete...
Blaise Pascal wrote something in his book Pensees that has always troubled me: “Men (humans) never delight in doing evil as much as if they can do it for religious reasons.” How chilling. Pascal...
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle and cemented by time. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) ...
When I was a young coach, I had a middle-school student we'll call Billy. He was above average in strength and size but well below average in intellect. He didn't know odd from...
President Harry Truman loved to tell about the annual Fourth of July picnic he attended growing up in Missouri. Every year, an old Civil War veteran would rise and tell the same battle story. ...
The man who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18b NIV) ...
One of the things I like most about the Bible is the motley and flawed collection of characters that populate its pages...
The LORD said to Moses, "Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders."… They came back...
"Ain’t she a beauty?" ...
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? ...
"This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever. Seven...
