for the gray nudge of dawn at the window ...
As Jesus ended his second year of ministry, everyone seemed confused about his identity. The Pharisees thought he was demon-possessed (Matt. 12:22). His kinfolk thought he was nuts (Mark 3:22). ...
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...
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 nineteenth century Scottish preacher, Alexander MacLaren, once said, "Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life." Many of those kindnesses...
For some time now, I have thought of myself as a spiritual writer and am confident enough, when someone wants to know...
Juan was a man in his forties or fifties in the cotton fields near my home in far West Texas, where I picked cotton sometimes after school and on Saturdays to make extra...
I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and you received me in your homes, naked and you clothed me; I was sick...
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection...
C. S. Lewis once advised his godchild, Lucy Barfield, about life. "Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do; (2) Things we've got to do; ...
When I'm discouraged, I begin to believe that my actions don't matter and that the real drama of life is taking place...
When I taught freshman composition, I called one lesson, "Wax on, Wax off." ...
One Sunday after church, needing milk, I went into Safeway. My new prescription sunglasses were there in my blue jacket going in...
She was a slip of a girl. Five years old on her last birthday; long, soft brown hair and startlingly clear blue eyes. She was full of energy and creative fun, but she...
On a recent pilgrimage to New York, the Ground Zero sprawled out before us was oddly anticlimactic. Oft-photographed skeletal structures were gone. Our view, distant and oblique, was—as the...
More than 10 years ago, before U-2s and Gary Powers, my friend Griff was one of six fliers chosen to fly secret reconnaissance missions over Russia and China. Griff was one tough guy. Earlier,...
"Why can't you write something that a lot of people would like?" That was Regina O'Connor's question to her daughter, Flannery, well after her daughter had published a groundbreaking novel, Wise...
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things unto His hands, and that He had come forth from God, and was going back to God, rose from supper, and laid aside His...
Lord, between yesterday and tomorrow, ...
