Mary, Martha, and their brother, Lazarus, were Jesus’ good friends. He visited frequently in their home and loved them all dearly (John...
Cast all your worries upon Him because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 ...
A beautiful early morning greeted sleepy vacationers as they shuffled onto the hay wagon for a ride to the cowboy breakfast. Some 40 of us were stifling yawns and waiting to roll when a voice...
I was fourteen when my brother taught me to play chess, and I couldn’t get enough of it. For hours on summer afternoons, I played in the shade of our backyard maple tree...
On September 11, Americans were violently rocked by thousands of untimely deaths. We were stunned, but quickly united. People unable to assist at Ground Zero did everything else possible. They...
Just the way we use the word hope makes it difficult to define. "I hope it doesn’t rain this weekend." "My life is founded on Christian hope." To get to the biblical understanding...
“Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each...
On a recent flight, my friend Dan overheard a conversation about the San Antonio River Walk. At first, the couple talked about their marvelous visit. As a San Antonian, my friend silently beamed....
I remember only one toy from my childhood: a kaleidoscope—a hollow tube with a peephole at one end and at the other, bits of colored glass between two glass panels, one clear, one...
Seth Miller is a Nasdaq trader in New York City with a compelling and courageous personal story. I invited him to speak one Sunday as part of my sermon, and this is an excerpt: ...
Life makes us wait. We wait to get our braces off, to finish school, to learn what college accepted us. We wait...
One day, sitting in my office writing something—probably a student's letter of recommendation—words came to my imagination: "I only want to sew, to have my hands in the threads." I jotted them...
The most important word in my Christian walk is hope. Well, faith also. But what is faith but hope for the unseen? Not all I hope for will happen this side of the...
I've never been good at the whole obedience thing. As a teen I broke curfews, snuck out on dates, skipped classes, and generally believed rules were made to be broken. As a young...
I have a bruising relationship with a Major American Poet, founded on mutual antagonism—what with each of us trying to top the other's last witticism. More often than not, he betters me, although...
God of Creation, you made us to love with the love You so abundantly lavished on us through our Savior, Jesus Christ. On our own we cannot see people, events, even our own...
"It is true that there is a silly, cowardly kind of optimism, which we must condemn. But optimism that is will for future should never be despised, even if it is proved wrong...
Pregnant teenage girls and preppie teenage boys, each in their own worlds trying to make sense of it all. Jean's a teacher who listens to these disparate groups with their differing tales of woe....
From the beginning of scripture to the end, from the Bible's first chapter through the last, God is at work to create and recreate. From the beginning, God invites us humans to join...
The author of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes generally is considered the pessimist among the stable of biblical writers. His entire book is framed by the dirge, "Vanity of vanity, all is...
