A cold Boston breeze rushed as I drove from the airport to a hospital to be with my eighty-year-old mother. One week earlier her life was a simple routine. Then came a heart...
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...
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...
In his national bestseller, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen Covey declared that “the single most important principle” in interpersonal relations is to seek first to...
Each day we imagine what things could be like, and we are often discouraged when they do not match our dreams.
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...
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...
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...
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...
"Ain’t she a beauty?" ...
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...
"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...
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? ...
I have seen bad things happen to good people, and I have experienced difficult times for myself. Their suffering has helped me...
If you listen, you can hear what they say about him: ...
James wrote to regular Christians, folks like you and me. Folks who know trials, temptations, and suffering (James 1:2-13; 3; 10). Folks...
“To live above with saints we love, oh won’t that be glory! But to live below with saints we know, well, that’s a different story.” - Anonymous "I love humanity; it's people I...
Through Jesus, God declares to the world that hardship and adversity do not have the final word. God has the last word, and it is shalom.
