“Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.” Matthew 6:12, The Message ...
Horatio Spafford was well acquainted with personal tragedy. Following the death of a young son, he watched most of his worldly investments go up in smoke in the Great Chicago Fire, and then he...
He was sitting on the curb, skateboard wedged under his knees, as my car approached the stop sign. He looked about age 16: brown skin, dreadlocks, baggy shorts, a basketball jersey that would have...
Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. ...
My thirty-one years as a professor in higher education is coming to a close. Lately, I have found myself delightfully daydreaming about the prospect of leisurely mornings in meditation with...
We live in times of impaired vision. People do not perceive God, because they fail to nurture the skill of looking for and finding Him in everyday life. Alertness to God is a...
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem asking, "Where is the child who has been born king of...
Father Alfons Wachsmann was a Catholic priest in Berlin when Hitler gained power, and the clergyman made the mistake of allowing and...
The bill was addressed to Patricia Seebeck at 44 W. 6th Ave. We live at 36 W. 31st Avenue. The bill said...
One sentence written by St. Paul always has a special affect on me. He is writing to the Corinthians, and from the letter’s context, we know that a certain group of people there...
The main character in Ernest Hemingway’s World War One novel, A Farewell to Arms, is disillusioned by hollow abstractions such as glory, honor, courage, sacrifice. “I had seen nothing sacred,” he...
This past August in my home city in the Northeast, two Muslim men, the Imam of a local mosque and the owner...
She was one of several people who came up after I’d read some fiction at a small college in Ontario, Canada. She was tall and thin and had the unmistakable allure of affluence...
A clear creek laughs and gurgles through the hills, pooling in the deep shade of cypress trees. A dozen cabins rest among clusters of mesquite and cedar; children splash in the river and parents...
Once upon a time, there was a man named Reprobus, which means Outcast. He was very big, very strong, very ugly, very...
My first experience with perseverance was somewhere around age one, when I began to walk. Again and again, I fell down and I got up—or pulled myself up. Until the day I could...
What ever happened to neighbors? We used to know who they were—the folks next door, those we worked or studied with or...
From the vantage of the 21st century and the passage of some 40 years, I smile to recall the difficulty I had accepting a woman Bible professor my first year of college. Her...
During an interview I recently watched on TV, a service station attendant was asked what he thought should be done about high gasoline prices. “I think we should drill Alaska,” he said. “That way...
Personal resolve in action and behavior is not always easy, especially when others throw obstacles in our way. A story in Acts 19 of the New Testament illustrates personal resolve that was almost...
